The Kamothe police have arrested the accused tempo driver identified as Iftikhar Ahmed Abdul Rahman (42), a resident of Kurla.
Navi Mumbai: A 45-year-old woman and the cleaner of a private luxury bus were killed and the woman’s husband was injured after a speeding tempo crashed into the parked bus while they were removing their luggage and grain bags from the bus compartment on the lower left side, after alighting from the bus ahead of Kalamboli circle on Sion-Panvel highway early on Wednesday morning around 3 am. The deceased woman has been identified as Sangita Popat Mote, a resident of Kalamboli, and the deceased bus cleaner as Balu alias Sudarshan Chintu Sartate (40), who hails from Satara. The injured husband of the deceased woman has been identified as Popat Dhondiba Mote (50). The Kamothe police have arrested the accused tempo driver identified as Iftikhar Ahmed Abdul Rahman (42), a resident of Kurla, after registering an FIR against him by invoking relevant BNS sections and Motor Vehicle Act for negligence causing death by riding dangerously on a public way.
Jyoti Deshmukh, senior inspector of Kamothe, said, “The Mote couple had returned from their native place in Sangli and alighted near Kamothe flyover as the bus driver skipped their destination at Kalamboli circle. the speeding tempo driver drove from the left side of the parked bus and hit the couple and the bus cleaner While the bus cleaner was helping the couple in removing their luggage with bags of food grains from the bus compartment.
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