A 60-year-old woman was mowed down by a speeding truck at Birawal village under Nazirabad police station area late on Tuesday night.
According to the police, a speeding truck hit the victim who had gone for grazing her cattle. After the accident she was rushed to a nearby hospital where she was declared dead.
The police have registered a case under section 304 (A) of the IPC and have started further investigation. Police have launched a manhunt to nab the errant driver.
The deceased woman was later identified as Aadhar Bai of Birawal village.The truck driver abandoned the truck and escaped the spot. The truck bearing registration number (4241) has been seized.
Meanwhile, no arrests were made in the vandalism episode at Sagar Institute of Technology (SIT) in which violent mob damaged around 30 vehicles after the death of an 18-year-old youth who was mowed down by a speeding bus of SIT on Monday.
Earlier, on November 11, a youth was mowed down by a speeding bus following which the relatives and locals thronged the Ratibad SIT campus and damaged around 22 buses and 8 cars. A case was registered by the police against the miscreants of vandalism and damaging the property. But till Wednesday no arrests were made by the police.
The police have confirmed that the investigations are on and miscreants would be identified and nabbed soon. Most of the miscreants were from the nearby village and joint the act of vandalism causing damage.