One person has died and around 20 are injured after a car ran over a bunch of individuals – devotees walking to immerse an idol of Goddess Durga – in Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur district.
The one one who died has been identified as Gaurav Aggarwal, 21, a resident of Pathalgaon in Jashpur. The injured are admitted to the Pathalgaon Civil Hospital for treatment. Block medic James Minj said two of the injured were being noted other hospitals with fractures.
The car – a maroon Mahindra Xylo – had a Madhya Pradesh number plate and sped away after the horrific accident, driving towards nearby Sukhrapara.
However, furious locals raced after the vehicle and located it abandoned and in flames by the side of the road. it had been within the ditch with the driver-side door open, and rear windshields and windows broken.
According to the office of the district’s Superintendent of Police, two accused are arrested and charged. the primary is 21-year-old Bablu Vishwakarma and also the second is 26-year-old Shishupal Sahu. Both are residents of Madhya Pradesh’s Singrauli district, and were passing through Chhattisgarh.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel expressed his sorrow.
“The Jashpur incident is extremely sad and heartbreaking. The culprits were immediately arrested. clear action has also been taken against the police who appeared guilty. An inquiry has been ordered. nobody are spared. Justice are done to any or all. May God rest the soul of the departed,” he said.
Former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has demanded ₹ 50 lakh compensation to the family of the one who was killed and therefore the immediate removal of the Jashpur Police Superintendent.
Earlier this month a convoy of vehicles, including one owned by Union Minister Ajay Mishra and allegedly driven by his son, Ashish, mowed down five people in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri.
Four were farmers; the fifth was a journalist.
The convoy ran over a bunch of individuals who were holding a peaceful protest against the minister’s visit. Three others, including two BJP workers, died within the violence that followed.
Ashish Mishra was arrested last week – after spending nearly seven days as a free man despite being named within the FIR (first information report). He has been denied bail by a neighborhood court. He has claimed he was in his paternal village, two km away, when the murders passed.
