India, Aug. 18 -- The Delhi Police have arrested the 25-year-old driver of the speeding Mahindra Thar that killed a 40-year-old man in Moti Nagar, west Delhi around 1am on Saturday, officers said. The accused, Amrinder Singh, a resident of Sudarshan Park in Moti Nagar, was arrested in Ludhiana late Saturday night.

Singh was returning from a party with a woman when he rammed into a motorbike that had halted on the roadside on Patel Road, police said. The victim, Bechu Lal, a contractor, was on his way to meet a relative at a hospital but had stopped on the roadside to take a phone call. He was talking on the phone when the speeding Thar hit him, police said.

The impact flung Lal several metres away, and the speeding Thar went on to hit a...