A rashly driven police vehicle knocked down the Team leader of ‘Sanjeevani 108 Emergency Ambulance Service’ near Shankar Nagar Railway Crossing resulting in his spot death on Saturday afternoon. The accused driver has been arrested informed Station House Officer Civil lines DS Devesthale.
According to police, the mishap occurred when police jawans sitting in a truck (CG-03 0623) were going towards SRP Chowk on Shankar Nagar road which is one of posh areas of city. “The truck had reached near the railway crossing when it dashed the biker Shekhar Karmakar (27) resident of Ravi Nagar Raja Talab who was on a Bajaj Pulsar bike (CG-04 CT-3722) from the back side,” said SHO Devesthale.
Meanwhile, police sources informed that the collision was so severe that Karmakar suffered serious head injury and died on the spot. After causing accident the driver did not stop the truck and sped away from the spot. “The truck driver reached Civil lines police station with the vehicle and surrendered before police,” SHO Civil lines said. The driver was identified as Krishna Kant Shukla (51) resident of First Battalion Bhilai. Police has booked Shukla under Section 304(A) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and were investigating the case.
After the accident large number of people gathered at the spot and staged protest for about an hour. later on police personnel reached at the spot and somehow pacified the locals.