08 January,2025 12:14 PM IST | Thane | mid-day online correspondent
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A 25-year-old labourer was killed after a road roller ran over him in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Wednesday, reported news agency PTI.
The incident took place when the victim, Prakashkumar Laddu Mahanto, was sleeping after lunch at around 2 pm in front of the road roller parked near a construction site in Bhiwandi town on Tuesday, an official from Kongaon police station said.
The police official stated that the road roller driver, without checking, started the vehicle which crushed the labourer to death. The body was later sent for postmortem to a government hospital in Bhiwandi.
The official stated that the police registered a case against the road roller driver under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 106 (causing death by negligence) and 281 (rash driving or riding on a public way) based on a complaint by a colleague of the victim.
A probe is on into the incident and no arrest has been made so far, the police official said.
One labourer was killed and one was seriously injured in a road accident after a Marathi film actress's car hit them in Kandivli East on December 27, said the police. The actress also suffered minor injuries.
The Samta Nagar police registered an FIR and arrested the actress's driver Gajanan Pal, 58. The deceased has been identified as Samrat Das, 24, who was crushed under the car. His colleague Suman Bablu Das, 24, was seriously injured.
Both victims are residents of Goregaon and were working at the construction site of underground pipe work off the Western Express Highway. The actress, too, suffered an injury on her chin.
According to police officials, the incident occurred at 1 am on Saturday near Poisar Metro Station on the Western Express Highway. The car was being driven by Gajanan Pal, who was taking the actress from a shoot to her home, when the car lost control.
Senior Inspector Anil Patil of Samta Nagar Police Station said, "We have registered the FIR against the car driver Gajanan Pal and arrested him. The owner of the car was seated in the backseat."
(With inputs from PTI)
