New Delhi: A 21-year-old student succumbed to injuries on Wednesday after a man rammed his car onto the victim's bike for objecting to his smoking in public. The accused, identified as Rohit Krishna Mahanta was later arrested.

Gurpreet and his friend Maninder Singh had gone near AIIMS for filming a documentary on pavement dwellers in the national capital on Saturday. While they were having dinner near the Safdarjung Hospital, a man came and started smoking on their faces. The duo objected to the man blowing smoke on their faces and asked him to not do so. The accused who was inebriated, threatened them with dire consequences.

Gurpreet and Maninder decided to leave from there since they did not want to escalate the issue. However, the man followed them and hit them with his car near AIIMS. The driver also went on to hit two other vehicles - an autorickshaw and a cab. The duo was rushed to hospital. Gurpreet succumbed to injuries while the other victim is undergoing treatment at the hospital.

The duo objected to the man blowing smoke on their faces and asked him to not do so. The accused who was inebriated, threatened them with dire consequences

After Gurpreet's death, police have added section 302 (punishment for murder, punishable with capital punishment) instead of IPC section 304 (punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder with a maximum term of life imprisonment) to the FIR. The accused's father Mahanta's father is a professor with one of the IITs.