UP: Two Bareilly traders killed as car rams truck at illegal cut near Gajraula

Both the truck and the car were taken into custody, and the truck driver has been detained for questioning, the officer said.

Published on: Oct 31, 2025, 11:38:44 IST

By Pankaj Jaiswal

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Meerut: Two textile traders from Bareilly were killed and two others were injured early Friday after their car rammed into a truck carrying sugar mill equipment at an illegal cut on the national highway near Gajraula town in Uttar Pradesh’s Amroha district, police said.

Police have identified the deceased as Salman (28) and Zahid (34), both residents of Tiliyapur village in Bareilly. “They were returning from Haryana after purchasing fabric when the accident took place. Anees, who was in the driver’s seat, and Asif Khan were injured in the collision,” an officer said.

Police said that the truck was driven by a resident of Ropar in Punjab, who was transporting boiler equipment for a sugar mill to the Chandausi area. Both the truck and the car were taken into custody, and the truck driver has been detained for questioning, the officer said.

“Around 5 am, when the truck reached about three kilometers from Gajraula town toward Moradabad, it attempted to cross the highway through an illegal cut in front of a petrol pump. At the same moment, the car coming from the Delhi direction at high speed rammed into the rear of the truck,” the officer said.

“The impact of the collision was so intense that the car’s front portion was completely crushed. Nearby petrol pump staff informed the police and the emergency services. The victims were taken to the Community Health Center (CHC), where doctors declared Salman and Zahid dead on arrival. The injured were later referred to a private hospital under the Didouli police station area.

Police have recorded statements from petrol pump employees who witnessed the incident,” the officer added.

CHC in-charge Yogendra Singh said that the bodies were brought to the centre for postmortem. “Further formalities were underway before handing over the remains to their families,” he said.

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Pankaj Jaiswal
Pankaj Jaiswal is Bureau Chief, Uttar Pradesh. He covers-analyses politics, and assists Hindustan Times reporters across the state. He has 30 years of experience in print media reporting. Based in Lucknow, he started his journalism career at a national English daily in Kanpur after graduating from Christ Church College. He joined Hindustan Times, Lucknow edition, as part of the launch team in 1997. He’s covered everything from rural distress to science, environment, wildlife, and crime. He has travelled extensively in Uttar Pradesh for rural, development, political, and election reporting. His continued interest in rural issues, rural distress, and development journalism has fetched him a handful of prestigious awards and fellowships. Pankaj is a photojournalist too. He clinched the Statesman Award for Rural Reporting—First Prize in 2009 and Third Prize in 2006—for exposing Bundelkhand’s devastating drought and distress: crop failures, farm suicides, migration, debt, and the injustice of meagre compensation cheques between Rs 10 and Rs 20 to farmers by the government from crop loss. He also has been awarded with Hindustan Times internal 'Journalist of the Month' citation over half a dozen times. His relentless reporting in Hindustan Times pulled the Bundelkhand crisis out of obscurity and forced it into the national spotlight, prompting media and government action on one of India’s most neglected regions. Over a decade, he filed hundreds of hard-hitting stories, travelling repeatedly from Lucknow deep into Bundelkhand. He also received the Special Mention KC Kulish International Award 2009. Pankaj also did long-haul political reporting on the most intense political family feud—’The Yadav Family Feud’—between 2016 and 2022.Read More

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