A senior official of the Union Ministry of Finance died and his wife is seriously injured after a BMW car hit his motorcycle on Ring Road near Delhi Cantt metro station on Sunday, the police said.
The victim, Navtoj Singh, Deputy Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs under the Ministry of Finance, was returning home on his bike from Bangla Sahib Gurudwara when he met with the accident, said the police. He was 52.
Sandeep Kaur, Navtoj Singh's wife, is seriously injured.
The couple's son has claimed that his parents were taken to Nulife Hospital in GTB Nagar, nearly 17 kilometres from the accident site, instead of being admitted to a nearby medical facility.