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UP: 6-year-old killed after Class 12 student ploughs car into pedestrians, 4 injured
Lucknow hit-and-run: A hit-and-run case from Lucknow has been reported, where the victim was a child. This comes just five days after the Kanpur hit-and-run case.
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A six-year-old boy was killed and four others were injured after a car driven by a Class XII student, who was heading back from his school farewell, allegedly mowed them down in Lucknow’s Banthara area on Thursday evening, said police.
Police said the accused allegedly fled the spot in the car before abandoning it. They later tracked him down and detained him. The accused, Gaurav Singh (21), was arrested on Friday and produced in a court which sent him to judicial custody. The car, which belongs to the father of a friend of Gaurav, has been impounded, police said.
According to police, it appears the accused allegedly lost control of the Swift Dzire, first crashing into an autorickshaw and then ploughing into pedestrians walking along the road.
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A case has been registered at the Banthara police station under various charges, including rash and negligent driving, and Section 151 (breach of peace) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), Lucknow Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Nipun Agarwal said.
DCP Agarwal said Gaurav possessed a driving licence and the vehicle’s fitness documents were found to be in place. The car, however, will be sent for mechanical examination as part of the investigation, he added.
“The driver claimed the accident occurred after one of the car’s tyres burst. The vehicle belongs to his friend’s father. We have detained the driver and seized the car,” said Lucknow Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Rajnish Verma.
Gaurav hails from a business family, police said.
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Accident occurred near Banthara Hanuman temple
When the incident took place near the Hanuman temple in the Banthara area, Dikshant Patel was walking by the roadside with his mother and grandmother. He suffered a severe head injury and later succumbed during treatment.
Apart from Dikshant’s mother Sadhna (35) and grandmother Meena Devi (60), the injured were identified as Arman (12) and Awadh Bihari (42).
During a preliminary inquiry, police said it emerged that the accused had allegedly borrowed his friend’s car to go to the school farewell. After the event ended, the accused offered to drop off four of his classmates. The accident occurred while he was on his way to drop the last classmate. While he had fled the spot, a girl travelling with him remained at the spot.
The incident comes on the heels of the high-profile Kanpur accident, where a Lamborghini Revuelto driven by leading tobacco businessman K K Mishra’s son, Shivam Mishra, allegedly rammed into multiple vehicles and injured a pedestrian. On Thursday, Kanpur Police arrested Shivam. He was produced in court and later released on bail.
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