(AI image) A car driver struck a sleeping casual worker in Pune early Friday morning.
PUNE: A techie from Baner allegedly ran over a casual worker sleeping along a road at Mamta Chowk in Balewadi around 5.30am on Friday, then took him to a hospital and told police he had found the man unconscious on the road.
“Our team has started searching for the driver,” senior inspector Chandrashekar Sawant said. On Baner Road, he met a police patrolling team and told them he had found Chavan unconscious on the road and was taking him for treatment, Sawant said. The driver then led them to another spot and claimed he had found Chavan there, Sawant said. I added “allegedly” in the intro since the case is only at the registration stage, though you can drop it, as police attribute the hit to CCTV and route tracking.
Police later traced the car’s route and found the spot where the man was actually run over. CCTV footage of the incident has also been recovered. Baner police have registered a case of rash and negligent driving against the driver. The driver then picked up the injured man and drove off. He then took Chavan to the Aundh hospital, where the man died. Police reached the hospital and took details of the driver and the deceased. The copy doesn’t name the driver, so I’ve left him unnamed.