Cops say accident, kin raise doubt

New Delhi: A day after Air Deccan employee Sanskriti Sinha died after being hit by a vehicle on the tarmac, the police called it a case of accident.
A case of rash and negligent driving has been registered against unknown vehicle. “So far, it does not look like a case of murder, though we are not ruling anything out,” Joint Commissioner (Operations) Aditya Arya said. “The vehicle that hit her could have either been a cab used by airline staff, or buses ferrying passengers.”
He said the police are also not ruling out the possibility that an aircraft hit Sinha.
Sinha’s colleagues, security personnel and airline staff are being interrogated. An officer said since her parents were arranging Sinha’s marriage, the probe would also look at possibilities of “one-sided love affair”.
The accident, police said, occurred at 9.56 pm — the time at which Sinha’s watch stopped working under the impact. It left her head crushed and neck dislocated. Police said there are injuries on chest and legs also.
The postmortem was done at Safdarjung Hospital last night.
Air Deccan spokeswoman Vijaya Menon confirmed that Sinha was wearing night-vision reflector jacket at the time. And that’s one point eating the victim’s relatives.
Airline officials said it is not unusual for senior maintenance staff to go to the tarmac alone.
24/10/07 Expressindia.com

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