{"id":27779,"date":"2026-06-28T08:03:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T02:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/rajokri-flyover-hit-and-run-techie-was-driving-thar-that-killed-biker-2-days-ago-arrested-in-delhi-delhi-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T08:03:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T02:33:42","slug":"rajokri-flyover-hit-and-run-techie-was-driving-thar-that-killed-biker-2-days-ago-arrested-in-delhi-delhi-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/rajokri-flyover-hit-and-run-techie-was-driving-thar-that-killed-biker-2-days-ago-arrested-in-delhi-delhi-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajokri Flyover hit-and-run: Techie was driving Thar that killed biker 2 days ago; arrested in Delhi | Delhi News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132044603,imgsize-532433,width-400,height-225,resizemode-75\/in-photo-sarthak-mattoo-the-thar-that-was-being-driven-by-apurv-singh-when-the-accident-happened-a-34-year-old-biker-sarthak-mattoo-was-tragically-killed-in-a-hit-and-run-incident-on-the-rajokri-flyover-the-driver-of-the-thar-a-software-tester-from-ghaziabad-has-been-apprehended.jpg\" alt=\"Rajokri Flyover hit-and-run: Techie was driving Thar that killed biker 2 days ago; arrested in Delhi\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Two days after a 34-year-old biker Sarthak Mattoo was allegedly run over by a Thar at southwest Delhi\u2019s Rajokri Flyover, police have apprehended the driver of the vehicle.<!-- --> Police said the Karnataka-registered vehicle belonged to a private company based in Bengaluru.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>The SUV had been leased to Sagar Saha from Bihar, who is employed with the company and posted in Bengaluru. At the time of the accident Thursday morning, Saha told police, his friend Apurv Singh was test-driving the Thar from Gurgaon to Dwarka Expressway and back. Saha was in the front passenger seat with Singh.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>Singh, 30, a software tester from Ghaziabad who lives in Gurgaon, was traced and apprehended. <!-- -->Police said it is unclear if he was intoxicated when he ran over 34-year-old Mattoo around 6.30am Thursday. Singh\u2019s blood samples have been sent for tests.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Sarthak\u2019s life cut short two days before b\u2019day<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>Police said Saha and Singh were contacted after obtaining the ownership details of the vehicle and they joined the investigation. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>\u201cThere is no information to suggest that they were planning to flee or attempting to conceal evidence,\u201d a senior police officer said. The vehicle has been seized.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>Sarthak, who worked with an event management company, was on his way to an assignment in Noida from his Gurgaon home at the time of the accident. The SUV hit Sarthak from behind before making a sharp cut, causing him to skid and come under its wheels. He was to turn 34 on Saturday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>Surender Mattoo told media that a passerby had found his son lying on the flyover on the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway and contacted the last number called, which was his office. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>\u201cOnce the car ran him over, they could have taken him to the hospital,\u201d Surender said, showing the scratched helmet that his son was reportedly wearing at the time of the accident. Police rushed Sarthak to a private hospital in Vasant Kunj, but he could not be saved.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/>Surender further questioned the reliability of the blood test two days after the accident. \u201cIt is Sarthak\u2019s birthday today. This was not an accident. It was a hit-and-run, an act of killing a man,\u201d he said, demanding strict police action.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/rajokri-flyover-hit-and-run-techie-was-driving-thar-that-killed-biker-2-days-ago-arrested-in-delhi\/articleshow\/132044572.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Two days after a 34-year-old biker Sarthak Mattoo was allegedly run over by a Thar at southwest Delhi\u2019s Rajokri Flyover, police have apprehended the driver of the vehicle. Police said the Karnataka-registered vehicle belonged to a private company based in Bengaluru.The SUV had been leased to Sagar Saha from Bihar, who is employed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-delhi"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}