Overview
- A 15-year-old from Ambedkar Nagar died in Haiderpur on Saturday after a Tata Tempo 407 hit a motorcycle ridden by two minors, and police seized the vehicle and registered a case.
- Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said illegal structures along the drain and roadside narrowed the carriageway and that the crash could have been avoided without these encroachments.
- Gupta announced that more than 140 unauthorised units on Road No. 320 will be removed in line with a Delhi High Court order.
- About two months earlier, a five-year-old girl was killed by a speeding dumper in the same locality, highlighting a pattern of fatal crashes.
- Officials say the corridor serves major hospitals, schools, and police facilities, and the government-built underpass toward the Outer Ring Road near Mukarba Chowk has offered limited relief due to persistent encroachments.