India, Sept. 15 -- Gagandeep Kaur, the 38-year-old driver behind the BMW car accident which led to the death of a finance ministry official in New Delhi, has told the police that she "was in panic", which is why she took the victim to a faraway hospital in GTB Nagar.

Kaur was sitting behind the wheels of the car, when it met with an accident near the Delhi Cantt metro station on Ring Road in the national capital.

Kaur told Delhi Police officials that she was panicked following the accident and instead of taking the victim, Navjot Singh, to a nearby hospital, she drove him to Nulife Hospital in GTB Nagar, ANI reported.

A police official earlier today said that Kaur's father was "known to one of the three owners of the hospital where the...