Fazilka MLA’s SUV kills biker on Chandigarh Road

Times News Network
Ludhiana: An SUV of Fazilka Congress MLA Davinder Singh Ghubaya killed a 40-year-old biker on Chandigarh Road, near Mundiya, late on Monday night.
The speeding SUV was going to Chandigarh to pick up the MLA when the accident took place.
The deceased has been identified as Bhajan Pal, 40, of Guru Nanak Nagar, Mundiya.
After closing his chicken shop on 33 Feet Road around 8.30pm, Bhajan Pal dropped his employee, Sushil, to his house in Mundiya Kalan village. He was on way home when the SUV rear-ender his motorcycle near a government school on Chandigarh Road around 11pm. The collision was so strong that it killed the biker on the spot.
Passersby called up the police.
Mundiya police post in-charge sub-inspector Harbhajan Singh said, “The SUV belongs to Congress MLA Davinder Singh Ghubaya. He, however, was not in the vehicle at the time. His driver Surinder Singh Shinda and a gunman were going to Chandigarh to pick him up.”
The police arrested the driver after registering a case under sections 279 (rash driving) and 304-A (causing death by negligence) of the IPC.
Bhajan Pal is survived by his wife and a son.