A 26-year old engineering student died while another youth was injured after their motorbike rammed into a road divider near Polytechnic Square under Shymala Hills police station area late in the night on Saturday.
According to the police, two youths were injured after their motorbike was hit a road divider and were rushed to Hamidia hospital where one of the youths was declared dead while the other youth escaped with injuries and was referred to Narmada hospital.
The deceased was identified as an engineering student of Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT) of Sardul Gupta and used to live at the college hostel. The deceased hailed from Kanpur of Uttar Pradesh.
Injured victim was identified as Rajneesh Kumar Singh (26). Accident took place when Sardul and Rajneesh were on their way to Bhopal railway station to drop Rajnessh who is a resident of Sholapur in Maharashtra and was scheduled to board a train.
Police said that the deceased was a pursuing M Tech from MANIT and the injured youth is his batch mate.
The deceased died in the wee hours on Sunday. The deceased and his friend were on their way to Bhopal railway station on their motorbike bearing registration number UP78-DD-6569.
Deceased used to live at MANIT hostel number 3 along with his injured friend. The injured youth was identified as Rajneesh Kumar Singh and is undergoing treatment at Narmada hospital. After preliminary investigation, body was sent for post-mortem. Police registered a case under section 174 of the CrPC and started further investigation.