Kolkata: Rookie ambulance driver kills CA

By-Subhajyoti Kanjilal


KOLKATA: A young chartered accountant was killed after a 17-year-old youth on the wheel of an ambulance rammed into him while he was crossing the road with two pals on the Lake Gardens Lords Bakery crossing late on Saturday night time.
Tamal Dutta, a resident of Selimpur in Dhakuria, had come to the realm, where several eateries stay open till late in the night time, for a deal with presented by a chum who had simply purchased a new car, his father Tapan Dutta told TOI on Sunday.

Police said Abhijit Ghosh, the landlord and the standard motive force of the ambulance, had passed over the keys to his relative and helper to park it on one side, and had simply disembarked to seek advice from a roadside shop, when the coincidence happened. "The teenager lost control of the car and possibly pressed the accelerator while trying to apply the brakes when he saw Tamal crossing the road. On impact, he was flung off the road and fell at a distance. His head first hit a roadside kerb and then the concrete surface," said an officer of Lake police station.

The teenager riding the ambulance was shaking in fear when locals stuck him and taken him out. Police detained him and took Tamal, bleeding profusely, to clinic.

For the Duttas, the ordeal had simply begun. According to Tripti, Tamal's mother, they won a decision little sooner than middle of the night and had been knowledgeable about the coincidence and that their son was being taken to MR Bangur Hospital in Tollygunge. "We rushed to the hospital but the doctors said my son needed to be put into ventilation immediately, and they had none. So, they transferred him to SSKM," she said. At SSKM, Tamal was allegedly made to lie at the floor on the emergency ward, unattended. "A doctor said the ventilation unit was not available at that moment, and that we would need to wait. An attendant suggested we take him to some private hospital immediately, as his condition was deteriorating. So we took him out after signing a risk bond, but by that time two hours had passed," said Tapan.


It was en path to the clinic at the Bypass that he succumbed to his injuries, and was declared useless on arrival. TOI tried to contact officers at SSKM and MR Bangur, however no person was available to factor an authentic remark.


A chartered accountant with a non-public company since 2012, Tamal was the only real incomes member of the family.


Abhijit was sent to judicial custody, and the boy was sent to a secure custody house, after being produced in a town courtroom.


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