The victim’s father is employed as a clerk in the Haryana Government office at Panchkula and resides in Sector 20, Chandigarh. According to Police, the accident took place around 2.15 pm on Wednesday afternoon, when Archana along with her younger brother Rahul and three other children, who also study in the same school, were returning home in the auto-rickshaw.

Archana reportedly fell out of the auto and received serious injuries after she hit her head on the road. She was rushed to Government Multi-Speciality Hospital(GMSH-16) where she died of internal injuries during treatment. Initially, Rampayre, told the police that the accident had taken place after the victim was holding hands with children sitting in an another auto-rickshaw running parallel to his auto. He also claimed that Archana reportedly fell out of while she was holding hand of another child in a separate auto. He had also told the Police that he had told a passerby to call up the police.