Bike’s non-functional headlight, stray dog chase leads to man’s death in Delhi

NEW DELHI, Jan 14: A late-night search for a drunk relative turned tragic in southeast Delhi’s Jaitpur Pushta area when a 20-year-old man died after his motorcycle, with a non-functional headlight, crashed into a ditch while being chased by a pack of stray dogs. Tushar Kumar (20), a compounder at a pharmacy, died while his friend Sudhakar Singh (29), a pharmacist, who was riding pillion on the motorcycle, sustained injuries when their motorcycle fell into a ditch after they were chased by a pack of stray dogs on January 10, police said.
“It was around 10 pm, when we started looking for my maternal uncle’s son Uddham, who had left his house in a drunken condition following a dispute,” Singh told PTI.
As Uddham frequently visited Madanpur area, we launched our search from there, he said, adding that while returning through a colony, the bike’s headlight was not working and visibility was poor, a pack of stray dogs surrounded our vehicle.
For a better visibility, Singh turned on his mobile phone’s flashlight, and Tushar accelerated to escape but failed to notice a ditch around 1.5 feet deep near the road.
According to Singh, Tushar lost control over the motorcycle and they fell into the ditch. Tushar suffered a serious head injury after hitting the front portion of the vehicle and started bleeding profusely.
He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared him dead. (PTI)