School boy killed by speeding car; biker dead in ‘hit and run’ case

Shashwat was on his way to school on a bicycle when the speeding car knocked him around 8.30 am. He died on the spot. A probe revealed that the car driver had not consumed liquor, said senior police inspector Ravindra Shelke.

Meanwhile, in a hit-and-run case on the Pune–Satara highway, Amod Mahendra Nimbalkar (25), a resident of Sus, died in a road mishap around 8.30 pm on Thursday. An FIR was lodged in this case at Rajgad police station of Pune rural police on Friday.

Amod was riding a motorcycle from Udtare (Satara) to Pune when an unidentified vehicle hit him near Hotel Rajtoram Misal on the highway. Amod died in the incident. A family member of Amod said that police have not yet identified or arrested the driver of the vehicle that knocked him down.