Accident victim's daughter accuses Smriti Irani of leaving spot without offering helping

But the HRD Minister said in a tweet that she had ensured that the injured reached hospital

The daughter of an Agra-based doctor who was killed after his vehicle was allegedly rammed into by Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani’s convoy on Saturday night alleged that Irani left the accident spot without offering help, The Indian Express reported on Monday. 

The accident allegedly took place on the Yamuna Expressway, which also injured the victim’s daughter and nephew.  

According to the report, the daughter told ANI, “Smriti Irani’s convoy rammed into our car. She came out, I begged her for help but she left.”

Contradicting the daughter’s allegations, Irani's office on Monday denied that she had left without helping after the accident.

While ANI’s tweet quoted the daughter as saying that they were travelling in a “car” when the alleged accident took place, NDTV quoted her as saying that they had been travelling on a bike. 

"The HRD minister's car hit our bike, which was at a slow speed. Our bike fell. I asked for help but they said no. They said you can get help later. If she wanted, she could have helped us. If she had helped us, my father would have been there with us," the daughter told NDTV. 

Irani had mentioned the alleged accident on social media.   

The HRD minister had tweeted right after the alleged accident that she “tried to help the injured who were lying on the road for quite some time and ensured they reached a hospital”.

In another tweet, Irani said, “There was a pile-up of vehicles due to an accident on the expressway. Unfortunately the police vehicle before mine & my car also crashed.”

The deceased doctor’s children alleged in the FIR that doctor Ramesh Nagar was killed after being hit twice by a car in the Irani's convoy, said the NDTV report. 

According to a tweet by ANI, Abhishek Nagar, the son of the victim, said, “My sister literally pleaded with folded hands to Smriti Irani for help,but she did not stop."

According to NDTV, Irani's spokesperson denied the allegations against her. Additionally, he said that car number 5315, named in the FIR, was not part of Irani’s convoy.

The spokesperson, while disputing allegations made by the deceased victim’s kin, was quoted by NDTV as saying that “despite being hurt, the minister stopped to call a senior police officer and asked him to send an ambulance”.