Pothole claims another life on Mumbai roads

October 14, 2016

Mumbai, Oct 14: just weeks after a pothole-related death in South Mumbai, in a similar accident, 26-year-old Neha Mirchandani was run over by a truck after she was thrown off a bike when it fell into a pothole. The fatal accident took place near Khemani Chowk around 9.15 am Thursday.

mumbaiMirchandani was riding pillion with her father 54-year-old Mahesh Mirchandani and was on her way to Guardian Dental College in Ambernath. “I dropped her till Ambernath railway station before leaving for work and she used to take an auto from there. She had just completed her Masters in Dental Surgery. Now she will never be able to fulfill her dreams,” said her father.

Mirchandani said he was unable to spot the pothole in time and the bike fell into it. Both lost balance and were thrown onto the road. “The truck was moving parallel to me. I fell on the other side while the truck ran over my daughter. The condition of most roads in the area are dismal and riddled with potholes. The corporation should have repaired the potholes by now,” he said. Mirchandani sustained injuries on his back and legs.

Blaming the corporation for the accident, former deputy mayor of Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation and resident Vinod Talreja said, “This accident is a result of the corporation’s negligence. The rains have stopped and there is no reason for the delay in repairing the potholes.”

Ulhasnagar municipal commissioner Rajendra Nimbalkar said, “I am very sorry for the family’s loss… but the corporation cannot be held solely responsible for it. Six months have been given to the contractors to repair the roads which is too long. I will review the issue and will reduce the time period.”

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The incident took place at deceased, Arvind's rented house in LBS Nagar inside HAL police station limits.

According to police, Arvind is an accused in a criminal case and recently walked out of jail on bail. 

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June 10,2020

Jun 10: In a suspected case of honor killing in Telangana, a 20-year old woman was allegedly smothered to death by her parents for being in love with a man from another caste, becoming pregnant and refusing to undergo an abortion, police said on Tuesday.

The parents killed their daughter using a pillow while she was asleep in the early hours of June 7 in their house in Kalukuntla in Jogulamba-Gadwal district and sought to project it as natural death, claiming she died of a heart attack.

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The parents decided to kill the woman, the youngest of their three daughters, a day after she was found pregnant and refused to undergo an abortion, police said.

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Though initially, she agreed, later she declined, following which they killed her and told everyone that their daughter died of heart attack, the police official said. When a police team went to their house and insisted on a post-mortem after noticing some marks on her body indicating a struggle, the parents tried to stop it, saying there was no need.

Later, police shifted the body to a hospital where a post-mortem revealed the woman was "throttled to death". Her parents during interrogation confessed to killing their daughter, the official said, adding they were arrested.

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June 26,2020

Kozhikode, Jun 26: A man, who had returned from Bahrain on Thursday and has been under quarantine at his house in Villyapallai near here, has been stabbed on his arm by an unidentified person.

Police sources said the assailant, with a masked face, had ransacked the man's house by break-opening the door at midnight lat night and stabbed Lijeesh on his arm and fled from the scene.

The nearby residents took Lijeesh to a nearby hospital and was put back on quarantine. 

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