By Sinjini Mitra
A Delhi court on Wednesday extended the judicial custody of Gaganpreet Kaur, the woman driver who was accused in the BMW crash which resulted in the death of a senior finance ministry official, till 27th September 2025. Her case will be heard on Saturday.
Ganganpreet, the 38-year-old driver, was driving the BMW that rammed into a motorcycle at Dhaula Kuan on the afternoon of Saturday. It resulted in the killing of Navjot Singh, a 57-year-old deputy secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs and injuring his wife in that accident.
Kaur was presented before the judicial magistrate Ankit Garg at Patiala House Court.
Kaur’s lawyer stated that the accident case was being converted by the Delhi police into a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. “The FIR was lodged 10 hours after the investigating officer arrested me. The police are saying that section 304 was invoked as the injured were taken to a faraway hospital. Both families are grieving. The couple have two children aged 5 and 7; they were also injured along with the senior officer” stated the senior advocate Ramesh Gupta, who appeared for Kaur, stressing that Kaur did her best to assist the injured.
However, the prosecution opposed the bail alleging that Kaur had deliberately diverted the victims to GTB Nagar hospital, nearly 19 km from the site of the accident, instead of the nearest hospital. Police have claimed that the hospital was owned by a relative of the accused.
“The injured who filed the FIR said that she kept on asking Kaur to take Navjot Singh to the nearest hospital, but the accused insisted otherwise. The taxi driver’s statement corroborates this” the investigative officer stated.
Kaur was arrested on Monday from GTB Nagar hospital, where she was admitted for treatment. Gupta, her lawyer urged the court to preserve CCTV footage of the accident, a plea on which notice has been issued.
The defence also contended that the accident involved a bus which police had failed to seize. Gupta further alleged that an ambulance at the site had refused to transport the injured, calling it the duty of senior officers to verify the sequence of events.