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Nashik: In yet another hit-and-run case in Maharashtra, a 31-year-old woman was killed after being hit by a speeding car in Nashik city, police said on Wednesday. Police said the 51-year-old car driver was in a drunken state at the time of the incident on Tuesday night and fled the spot and was later arrested. An official from Gangpur police station said the suspect has been identified as Devchand Rambhau Tidme, a resident of Dhruv Nagar, who worked in a company in Satpur MIDC area of the locality. The victim, Archana Kishore Shinde, a resident of Hanuman Nagar, was returning home from work around 6 pm when a speeding car hit her from behind on Bardan Phata-Shivaji Nagar Road near Gangpur Road, the official said.
The woman suffered severe head injuries. She was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors declared her brought dead. Before the accident, two young men coming from the opposite direction saw the car coming towards the woman and tried to warn the driver. However, the car driver did not slow down and the vehicle hit Shinde. The car driver then fled the scene, police said.
The incident was captured by CCTV cameras installed in the area. An alert citizen at the spot also noted down the car number. The police then rushed to the driver’s house and arrested him. The official said the driver was on his way home when the accident occurred.
His medical report showed that he was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident. As a result, he was unable to control the vehicle and hit Shinde. Police said that after the accident, he did not help the victim and went home. The official said that Gangapur police has registered a case against the man under Section 105 (manslaughter not amounting to murder), Section 281 (rash driving) of Indian laws and provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act.
Police added that an investigation into the case is underway. A woman died when a BMW hit the two-wheeler she was travelling on and dragged her for 1.5 km in Mumbai’s Worli area on Sunday, police said earlier. Three people, including the son of a Shiv Sena politician, have been arrested in connection with the incident, police said. A policeman died in Pune late on Sunday night when a car hit the motorcycle of two policemen who were patrolling in Khadki area. A 24-year-old man was arrested on Monday in the incident.
In another hit-and-run incident on Sunday night, a 23-year-old man died after being hit by an unknown vehicle in Nagpur city. On February 25, a woman, allegedly in a drunken state, recklessly drove a Mercedes-Benz and hit two men on a motorcycle on the Ramjula Bridge. Both the riders died after the accident.
More than four months after the accident, the woman surrendered to the police on July 1 and was subsequently arrested. On July 2, a local court ordered her release, saying her arrest in the case was illegal.
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