Tarmac death: Airport driver comes under the scanner

New Delhi: The mystery behind Air Deccan employee Sanskruti Sinha's death may finally be solved. Almost a year after 26-year-old Sinha, a ground engineer, was found run over on the tarmac of the domestic terminal at IGI airport, investigators are finally hopeful of a breakthrough. Police say they have three suspects, all drivers who work within the airport premises. The main suspect is the driver of a `follow-me' vehicle, employed by DIAL or AAI.
According to sources, the driver emerged as the main suspect after investigating officials found discrepancies in the report of the polygraph test that the driver had undergone along with the two other suspects in November last year. But with no concrete forensic evidence available, the police were likely to subject the driver to another polygraph test.
Officials said they had spent considerable time to narrow down on the exact vehicle involved in the incident.
Sinha died on October 22 last year. Her postmortem revealed that she had been crushed by the bumper of a heavy vehicle. The technician was found to have complied with all safety regulations that were at place at that time. She was even wearing the highly visible vest which can be easily seen from a distance.
31/10/08 Dwaipayan Ghosh/Times of India

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