India, Nov. 23 -- An eight-year-old boy died after being hit and dragged for at least 20 meters under a speeding car driven by a 15-year-old in a narrow bylane in Bhondsi on Friday evening, police said on Saturday. The victim, Yohan, was declared dead at a private hospital in Sector 51.

Police said the incident took place around 6.30pm on a 20- to 25-foot-wide internal road in Krishna Kunj when Yohan was accompanying his father, Ashwani Kumar, to a nearby market to buy medicines for his ailing wife. The father was standing on the staircase of a pharmacy while the boy waited on the roadside when the car struck him.

A senior police official said the accused, a resident of Prem Kunj, was driving a silver Maruti Suzuki SX4 bearing a Sultanp...