At least five people from Telangana were reported killed and another injured on Tuesday when the car they were travelling in veered off the road and fell into a roadside drainage pit along the Pune-Solapur Expressway in Pune district in Maharashtra“the police said, PTI reported.
According to PTI, the incident occurred near Dalaj village under Bhigwan police station limits.
According to police, six people, all in their 20s, were travelling in the car from Mumbai to Telangana when the incident occurred around 3.30 pm.
“After an outing in Mumbai, the six persons were returning to their home state in the car. At first glance, the driver lost control of the steering wheel as the road was slippery amid heavy rain, causing the car to veer off course and fall into a drainage pit,” an official was quoted as saying by PTI.
He said five of the six occupants of the vehicle died on the spot, while another individual was injured and taken to hospital.
Further investigations are underway, he added.
Father of minor involved in Porsche accident arrested for fraud
Meanwhile, in another incident, Vishal Agarwal, father of the 17-year-old boy involved in the Porsche accident at Kalyani Nagar here, was arrested by the Pimpri Chinchwad police in the district in a cheating case related to one of his real estate projects, PTI reported.
The Pune police took him out of the jail where he was lodged in judicial custody and produced him before a court which remanded him in fresh police custody for two days, an official said.
Vishal Adsul, chairman of Nancy Brahma Residency, a project built by Agarwal’s company in Bavdhan area near here, had filed a complaint against him and four others earlier this year, according to PTI.
A case was registered against them under sections 420 (fraud) and 409 (breach of trust) of the Indian Penal Code and provisions of the Maharashtra Apartment Ownership Act.
The construction company allegedly failed to provide enough open space for the project and only gave open space to three buildings by altering the plans, and also failed to obtain permission from the housing society while constructing two 11-storey buildings on its land, a police official said.
Earlier in the day, a Pune court granted bail to Vishal Agarwal and his father Surendra Agarwal in a case in which they are accused of kidnapping and wrongfully confining their family’s driver after the fatal accident on May 19.
Both are accused of trying to pressure the driver into taking responsibility for the incident. accident in which two people died, and thus protect the son of Vishal Agarwal, who was allegedly driving the Porsche when it collided with the victims’ motorcycle.
(with PTI inputs)
