Mumbai: Auto-rickshaw driver decapitated in hit-and-run case at Bandra
In a circumstance of hit-and-run, a 30-12 months-previous automobile-rickshaw driver was killed and a woman passenger travelling in his car was wounded just after a major auto hit the a few-wheeler around Bandra Reclamation in Mumbai’s Bandra (West) on Tuesday night, the law enforcement stated.
The incident took spot all around 10.15 pm in the Bandra Reclamation tunnel to the sea backlink. When a law enforcement team attained the location, they saw the autorickshaw on the footpath terribly broken on the right aspect. They noticed the driver lying on the road primary to Lilavati Hospital. His head was observed four ft away from his system, the police stated.
Just after inquiring regional inhabitants, the police figured out that a hefty auto hit the autorickshaw and fled from the location. The hurt woman received into a further autorickshaw and still left the spot.
The police found an identification card from the deceased and he was determined as 30-12 months-old Papukumar Saav. An FIR has been registered by a police officer at the Bandra police station in opposition to the unfamiliar vehicle underneath Sections 279 and 304 A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 134 A and B of the Motor Vehicles Act for leading to demise owing to rash and negligent driving and escaping from the location without having rendering aid to the victims or reporting to law enforcement.
The Bandra police are checking CCTV cameras in the vicinity to get potential customers in the circumstance to discover the auto concerned in the accident. The police have sent the driver’s overall body to a postmortem centre and knowledgeable his family.