09 November,2023 07:13 PM IST | Nagpur | mid-day online correspondent
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Maharashtra crime: Three police officials were booked for allegedly threatening a motorist after a road accident in Nagpur district of Maharashtra, the officials said, according to the PTI.
An assistant inspector and two constables have been booked for allegedly threatening a man after an accident that took place on June 13, a police official said on Thursday, the PTI reported.
API Pravin Mundhe had allegedly pulled out a pistol during an altercation after the car driven by him halted suddenly, resulting in the two-wheeler of a man identified as Shubham Wahane (28) colliding with the vehicle, he said, as per the PTI.
The two constables, identified as Shailesh Yadav and Pradip Mane, were accompanying Mundhe and are accused of threatening Wahane, the Koradi police station official said, according to the PTI.
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Mundhe, Yadav and Mane have been charged under Indian Penal Code and Motor Vehicles Act sections for act that may endanger personal safety of others, criminal intimidation, rash driving and other offences, he said.
Meanwhile, a private luxury bus coming to Mumbai from Goa veered off the road and rolled down to the bank of a river in Maharashtra's Kolhapur district, the officials said on Thursday, reported the PTI.
They said that the accident took place after the driver of the bus reportedly misjudged a bridge on Thursday, as per the PTI.
There were no injuries, a police official said.
According to the PTI, the bus was carrying 40 passengers when the incident took place in the Sahuwadi area in the morning, he said.
Bus driver Hrishikesh Jagdish Bhat (23) lost control of the vehicle and it went off the road and rolled down to the bank of a river, he said, the PTI reported.
No one was injured in the accident, the official said, adding that traffic on the road was briefly affected.
In an another incident, two persons were killed when a truck hit a private bus on the Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra's Buldhana district on Thursday, a police official said, as per the PTI.
The accident took place at around 4 am in Mehkar area of Buldhana, located about 350 km from Nagpur, when the bus driver had stopped the vehicle in a lane for checking its tyres, he said.
The bus was on way to Nagpur from Mumbai.
(with PTI inputs)
