New Delhi:

A new video has surfaced showing how the rescuers pulled out the car that got stuck in the flooded underpass in Faridabad, leading to the death of its two occupants on Friday night. The victims — Viraj (26), a cashier at a private bank branch in Faridabad, and 48-year-old manager Punyashray Sharma were returning home in Greater Faridabad from Gurugram when their car got stuck in the flooded Old Faridabad Railway underpass around 11:50 pm.

The 3-minute video shows police and rescue teams trying to pull out the submerged car, a Mahindra XUV 700, using life jackets and water tubes. 

They also tied a rope to the car to take it out of the inundated area.

A police official said a passersby had attempted to help the duo stuck in the car and after a lot of efforts, managed to get them out but Viraj died on the spot. Punyashray was taken to the Badshah Khan Civil Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

According to police, rains throughout Friday inundated the underpass and cars were warned against entering it. They said the XUV 700 entered the underpass ignoring all warnings and water gushed into the vehicle.

“A barricade was put up at the entrance of the underpass since it was waterlogged. The occupants of the SUV were told by police officers to take a different route,” police sub-inspector Rajesh Kumar told the news agency PTI.

“But they removed the barricade and attempted to go through the underpass. The car’s doors got locked as it got stuck in the water and the duo died by drowning,” he said.

New Delhi:

A woman had buried her daughter 10 months ago in the Faridabad house they were living in. A complaint from the father, living in Saudi Arabia, led the cops to their home and a search followed, leading to an exhumation. The recovered body has been sent for postmortem.

Parveena was 17 years old. Her mother, Anitha Begum, has been taken into police custody.

The cops say that the father, Tahir, emailed them about her missing daughter. Asked how it took him that many months to complain, the cops said the man was not on good terms with his wife.

Anitha begum denies that she killed her daughter, telling cops that the girl died by suicide. She, however, admitted to the cops that she buried her in the house. The woman said she feared that the news of her suicide will bring a bad name to the family and buried her with help from two people.

“I did not kill her. She had affairs and used to run away. We had locked her up. And we slept. She died by suicide. Fearing a bad name, we buried her in the house. It was a big mistake, I admit it,” said Anita Begum.

The cops say further investigation will begin once the postmortem results are in.

(With inputs from Vinod Mittal)