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Women biker tries to avoid pothole, gets crushed by truck

DHNS
July 24, 2017

Mumbai, Jul 24: The death of a 35-year-old biker, Jagruti Hogale, at the Jawhar-Dahanu highway in Palghar district, nearly 130 kms from downtown Mumbai, has raised the issues of safety on roads during monsoon as potholes crop up often and remain unattended.

Jagruti, a resident of Kalanagar in Bandra-East, is survived by husband Viraj and son Harshit. She was a biker, a trekker and marathon runner, had learnt to ride motorbike around three years ago. She was part of the Bikerni Biker Club - that used Bullets. She was also associated with the Morya Dhol Tasha Pathak and was active in social circles.

On Sunday morning, when she was part of a group riding from Mumbai to Jawhar, she was crushed under the rear wheel of a truck at Vaiti village on the Jawhar-Dahanu highway while avoiding a pothole on the road. All the bikers had their helmets and other gear on while riding. She was riding a Royal Enfield Thunderbird 350.

"Because of rains at that time she might not have noticed the pothole," said Assistant Police Inspector of Jayprakash Gute of Kasa police station. The local police has registered the statements of co-bikers Mrunal Nair and Dnyada Maskar, both residents of Navi Mumbai.

Meanwhile, the issue of safety on roads and the problems during monsoon is all set to be discussed during the monsoon session of Maharashtra legislature, that commenced on Monday.

"The Mumbai civic body, the other civic bodies around Mumbai and other agencies need to ensure that roads are potholes free. But that does not happen as they are interested in corruption," NCP MLC Vidya Chavan said. "We all are of the opinion that such things should not happen," BJP MLA Manda Mhatre said.

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Agencies
May 14,2020

Six migrant workers have been killed and five others seriously injured when a speeding bus ran over them on the Delhi-Saharanpur Highway near in Muzaffarnagar, officials said on Thursday.

The accused driver, who was suspected to be under the influence of alcohol, has been arrested, said SSP Abhishek Yadav.

The workers were going on foot to their homes in Bihar from Haryana when they were hit on the Delhi-Saharanpur Highway between Ghalili Check Post and Rohana Toll Plaza, about 20 km from here late last night, the official said.

The injured -- Sushil, Nathu Saini, Pawan Saini, Pramod and Ramji Rai --were rushed to hospital.

Two of the deceased were identified as Bijender, 25, and Harsh, 20. The rest were yet to be identified.

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Agencies
February 16,2020

Five Bajrang Dal activists have been arrested for allegedly indulging in vandalism in the city on Valentines Day, police said.

They said about 10 to 15 activists on two wheelers vandalised a shop in Kattupalli area in Hyderabad on February 14.

They held aloft flags and raised slogans against celebration of Valentines Day and "created havoc" at different malls, a police press release said.

On receiving information, police rushed to a mall, but the Bajrang Dal activists escaped from the spot.

Five of them were later identified with the help of CCTV footage and arrested, police said.

The others too have been identified and efforts were on to nab them, police said.

Two cases have been registered against them under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code on a complaint from shop owners, the release said.

 

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News Network
June 6,2020

Kota (Rajasthan), Jun 6: A 14-year-old boy allegedly hanged himself to death on early Saturday morning shortly after he stopped playing PUBG throughout the night and went to sleep, said police. 

Railway Colony police station’s in-charge Hansraj Meena said the boy, a class 9 student and son of an Army man, was found hanging from the grill of the ventilator in his bedroom on early Saturday morning. 

Meena said according to the boy’s family members, the boy had downloaded the gaming programme on his mother’s mobile phone only three days back but had been playing the game virtually continuously for the last three days. 

He kept on playing the game till 3 am in a room in which his brother was studying, said Meena, adding the boy went to adjoining to sleep after that. His body was found hanging from the ventilator’s grill in the morning, he said, adding the boy was rushed to MBS Hospital, where he was declared “brought dead”. 

No suicide note was recovered in the case, the SHO said. The boy lived in Gandhi Colony in the city along with his mother and brother, while his father, a Tamil Nadu native and Army man, is currently posted in Arunachal Pradesh. The boy’s body has been kept in hospital’s morgue for the postmortem, the SHO said.

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