Man killed after being hit by truck speeding on Bilaspur-Tauru Road

Investigators said that Singh’s neighbour Dharmender Singh was also returning to Tauru from Bilaspur and had stopped at the spot after noticing a crowd. He identified Singh and alerted his family and the police control room

Updated on: Nov 10, 2024, 05:42:18 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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Gurugram: A 23-year-old man died after he was allegedly hit by a truck speeding in the wrong direction near Pathredi village on the Bilaspur-Tauru Road, police said on Saturday.

A 23-year-old man died after he was allegedly hit by a truck speeding in the wrong direction near Pathredi village on the Bilaspur-Tauru Road, police said. (Representational Image)

They identified the deceased as Rahul Singh, a resident of Kalvari village in Sadar Tauru, Nuh. According to the police, he was returning home from Bilaspur after finishing some work when the accident took place at about 8.30pm on Thursday.

Investigators said that Singh’s neighbour Dharmender Singh was also returning to Tauru from Bilaspur and had stopped at the spot after noticing a crowd. He identified Singh and alerted his family and the police control room.

Inspector Karamjeet, station house officer of the Bilaspur police station, said that the truck driver fled from the spot soon after the accident.

“Singh was rushed to a nearby private hospital but doctors declared him dead. His body was handed over to his family after an autopsy on Friday. The driver was speeding and that led to the accident,” he said.

He said that the truck as well as the motorcycle were later seized.

Based on the complaint of Singh’s neighbour, an FIR was registered against the unidentified truck driver under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Bilaspur police station on Friday.

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Debashish Karmakar
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More