IN YET another hit-n-run case, a 35-year-old biker was killed after being hit by a rashly-driven Land Rover Discovery SUV near Tapasya Vidyalaya on Manewada Ring Road in Hudkeshwar area in the small hours of Friday. The SUV driver sped away fearing arrest. The deceased, identified as Samuel Narendra Trivedi, was a resident of Flat No. 102, New Aakash Nagar. Samuel had gone to meet his friend in Dhantoli.

 

While returning on his Bajaj Avenger motorcycle (MH-31/CD-3188), he was hit by a recklessly-driven Land Rover Discovery SUV (WB-20/Z-5101) around 12.30 am. Samuel fell off the bike and was seriously injured. The SUV driver sped away. Samuel was rushed to Government Medical College & Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. After recording the statement of Narendra Awsaneshwar Trivedi (70), father of the deceased, Hudkeshwar Police registered a case under Sections 106(1)(2), 125(1), 125(2), 281 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, read with Sections 134, 177 of the Motor Vehicle Act, against the SUV driver and launched a search for him.