Sector 62 Guard Dies as Pickup Allegedly Reverses

GURUGRAM: A 54-year-old security guard died after a Bolero pickup allegedly hit him while reversing at high speed in Sector 62 on Sunday morning, police said, registering a case of rash driving and death by negligence.

The deceased, Yogendra Bahadur Singh, hailed from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh and was deployed as a guard on private company land in the area. Colleague Chandan Ram, who filed the complaint, said Singh was posted at a corner of the property when the vehicle came from the Ullawas side towards Nangli Umarpur around 9am. According to the complaint, the driver suddenly stopped and then began reversing. Ram alleged that the pickup reversed at high speed and in a negligent manner, knocked Singh down and continued reversing over him, leaving him critically hurt. Ram said he saw the incident and alerted the company's quick response team. Singh was first moved by auto towards Ullawas road and then taken to Civil Hospital in Sector 10, where doctors declared him dead on arrival, a police officer familiar with the probe said.

Police reached the spot after receiving information but did not find the pickup or its driver there, according to the first account tied to the FIR. On the basis of Ram's complaint and the hospital record, Sector 65 police registered a case under Sections 281 and 106 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Those provisions cover rash driving and causing death by negligence. The allegations remain under investigation, and the driver's identity was not confirmed in the initial narrative.

Construction and private land parcels in the Sector 62-Ullawas-Nangli belt see frequent movement of pickups, tippers and other worksite vehicles. Guards standing at property corners often share space with reversing commercial vehicles that have limited mirrors and hurried schedules. When a reverse manoeuvre is alleged to have been fast and uncontrolled, the difference between a warning shout and a fatal run-over is measured in metres.

Witness testimony from a colleague on duty will be central. Investigators will also look for CCTV on the approach roads and any registration detail that workers or passers-by noted. Early reports differed on whether a vehicle photograph later helped tracing. Until police publicly name and accuse an arresting vehicle, the case remains a complaint, a dead guard, and an open hunt for the driver.

Singh's death is part of a hard Sunday for Gurugram's road and worksite safety ledger, which also saw a separate child fatality on the Golf Course Extension belt the same day. Different locations and different vehicle types still point to the same civic pressure: heavy commercial vehicles operating in mixed zones with too little margin for people on foot.

For the Sector 65 team, the next steps are vehicle identification, driver tracing and forensic correlation with the complaint timeline. For companies that post guards on open land edges, the incident is a reminder that a corner duty point without physical separation from reversing lanes can turn a routine morning into a fatal case file.