Chandigarh, March 22 -- Three people were killed and as many injured as an inebriated 18-year-old allegedly rammed his Mercedes into a taxi after jumping a red light in Mohali and then hit two cyclists. The teenager Samrat, a Chandigarh-resident who was allegedly driving the luxury car, was arrested by the police on late Saturday night.
Two occupants of the taxi, Dharampreet Singh and Ankush Narula, and a cyclist, Ram Prasad, died, while three people sustained injuries in the crash near the Radha Soami Chowk on early Saturday morning, the police said.
The police have booked Samrat and his friends Arjun and Prabhnoor, who were accompanying him in the Mercedes. A resident of Chandigarh's Sector-34/D, Samrat belongs from the family of Weldon...