Chandigarh, Sept. 27 -- Seven years after a motorcyclist was killed in a collision with a scooter in Sector 20, a local court has awarded one-year rigorous imprisonment (RI) to the scooter's female rider.

According to case files, the victim, Paras Ram Pandey, a resident of Sector 20-C, worked for the Punjab animal husbandry department.

On May 3, 2018, he was on his way on a motorcycle near his house, when a scooter rammed into his two-wheeler head-on.

Both Pandey and the scooterist, Sakshi, also a resident of Sector 20-C, were taken to Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32, for treatment.

But Pandey succumbed to his injuries during treatment.

Sakshi was subsequently booked under Sections 279 (rash driving or ridin...