10-yr-old boy dies in hit-&-run

Panchkula, December 4

A 10-year-old boy lost his life after a Bullet motorcycle hit him on the Pinjore road near the Nalagarh turn on Thursday.

The incident took place around 2.30 pm when Chandra Shekhar, the victim, who used to live in a slum near Ratpur village on the Nalagarh road in Pinjore, was walking back to his home along with his father Ravindra Kumar after collecting wood from a nearby area.

Woman died on the spot

• The incident took place when the victims, Rajwinder Kaur and her daughter Darweshinder Kaur, were going towards Kharar from Sohana on their scooty.
• At a sharp curve near Mata Gujri Gurdwara on Airport Road, a sand-laden tipper hit their two-wheeler. They fell on the road and were crushed under a wheel of the tipper.
• Rajwinder died on the spot. The girl was taken to a hospital where she was declared brought dead.

Ravindra Kumar told the police that as they crossed the road, a man riding a black Bullet bike, who was coming from the Baddi side towards Pinjore, ran over his son. He sped away after the accident.

A case under Section 279 (rash driving) and 304-A (causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered at the Pinjore police station. —TNS