Man who hit Samir nabbed

CHANDIGARH: The dead can't be brought back to life, but there can sometimes be a little solace and some consolation.
Three days after The Times of India highlighted how a car-borne driver had run over 31-year-old Samir Seth, killing him on the spot, the police on Wednesday arrested Kamal Mirg, an official with a private bank in the city.
It, of course, took agonised detection work by family members of Samir to first locate the eyewitness who had seen the accident and loud cries to be heard for an unmoving police to act.Also, what came as a huge blessing was the crucial role played by Anil Kapoor, a neighbour of Samir's family, who called up the TOI on Sunday and said with both courage and conviction that the police was trying to sweep whole bloody incident under the carpet. "Rahul, who was at the scene of the tragedy, has approached the family of Samir and told them that the car had indeed run the youth over," Kapur said. "And going against the police version Rahul categorically said that he told officers about the man behind the wheel of the killer car but they let him go after some negotiation."
The concerned neighbour, and also equally apprehensive of police reprisal, made Rahul speak to TOI. Even as there was no headway, as the police could not locate Rahul, Samir's Delhi-based sister Dimple took up the cudgels and traced him on Tuesday night. Reluctant to go to police station after facing cops' rudeness on accident spot, he agreed to depose before them in Samir's Sector 45 home. It was then that the police, thanks to an investigation personally supervised by IG SK Jain, stirred into action and prepared a detailed list of all Chandigarh cars ending with numbers 2888, as stated by Rahul. Going by the Rahul's description of a reddish big car, the cops zeroed in on Ford Fiesta (CH03Y-2888) of Mirg.