DHAKA: The driver whose car rammed into Gopinath Munde’s car, killing the union minister, has been arrested.

India police said Tuesday, reports gulfnews.com.

Gurvinder Singh, who was driving the car, was arrested at the scene.

Singh, 32, was driving his personal Tata Indica car, which rammed into the senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader’s Maruti Suzuki SX4 on the side he was sitting, police said.

‘We are investigating whether he (Singh) jumped the red light in the morning,’ Delhi Police Joint Commissioner MK Meena told media.

The police have registered a case against Singh of rash and negligent driving, causing death.

Munde crashed at Aurobindo Marg in south Delhi. He was admitted to AIIMS trauma centre where he later died.

‘On his arrival to the AIIMS trauma centre, there was no spontaneous breathing, no blood pressure, no pulse and there was no cardiac activity,’ a doctor said.

BDST: 2039 HRS, JUNE 03, 2014