Amritpal Singh Dhillon, a Canada-returned man, was arrested for fatally hitting 114-year-old marathoner Fauja Singh with a borrowed Fortuner on the Jalandhar-Pathankot freeway. Dhillon, who fled the scene, claimed he was unaware of the sufferer’s id till information reviews surfaced.

JALANDHAR: The driving force who fatally struck iconic marathoner Fauja Singh on Jalandhar-Pathankot nationwide freeway Monday turned out to be a Canada-returned man who sped away after leaving the 114-year-old to die, Punjab police mentioned on Wednesday.The suspect, Amritpal Singh Dhillon (26), was arrested from his dwelling in Dasupur village, 20km from Jalandhar, on Tuesday. The automobile, a borrowed white Fortuner bearing a Punjab registration quantity, was seized. In keeping with Jalandhar Rural SSP H S Virk, Dhillon mentioned he didn’t understand it was Singh he had struck, and that he had fled the scene as a result of he was scared.Police have charged him with culpable murder and rash driving. The police FIR says the automobile was rushing, and that Singh’s life might have been saved had the motive force taken him to hospital relatively than fleeing.Singh’s son, Harbinder, mentioned the motive force ought to have stopped to assist his injured father. “We’d not have pursued a criticism towards him had my father survived. However he ought to have stopped,” he mentioned. Dhillon informed police that Singh was crossing the freeway and he couldn’t cease in time because the automobile was going quick, mentioned Virk. tnn‘Realised what I had achieved when I discovered TV channels reporting Fauja Singh’s loss of life’ Dhillon was returning dwelling from Bhogpur, a 16km drive that handed through Beas Pind village. As reported by TOI on Wednesday, the marathoner was strolling in the direction of his household dhaba throughout the street when he was struck.Throughout questioning, Dhillon revealed that it was solely at night time, when TV channels began reporting Fauja Singh’s loss of life, that he realised who he had hit and run, mentioned the SSP.In keeping with law enforcement officials, Dhillon claimed he felt very responsible after that. Nevertheless, he didn’t come ahead to take duty for the loss of life that was mourned by the world.It took meticulous detective work to trace down the automobile and the motive force.At a press convention on Wednesday, SSP Virk mentioned an eyewitness informed police that the automobile that hit Fauja Singh might have been an Innova or a Fortuner. “We recovered a broken a part of a headlight and once we checked with Toyota companies, we have been informed that it might be an previous Fortuner from the 2009, 2010, or 2011 fashions. Then, from CCTV footage, we zeroed in on a Fortuner and likewise discovered a broken headlight from one explicit CCTV. We discovered the registration quantity from CCTV footage. Investigations revealed that the automobile had been bought a few instances,” he mentioned. By Tuesday, police felt positive they’d the best suspect. And the identical night time a police workforce arrived at Dhillon’s doorstep.The SSP mentioned Dhillon had gone to Canada on a vacationer visa eight years in the past and stayed again on getting a piece allow. His sisters stay there, too. He was within the building enterprise and has a piece visa till 2027. He had come to India on June 23 on an emergency certificates as he had misplaced his passport. Three weeks into his homecoming, he’s now behind bars, accused of killing a legend who appeared to outpace time. Dhillon was produced in a neighborhood courtroom on Wednesday and remanded in jail.