KHARAGPUR: A truck driver was overwhelmed to demise after stepping out of his car to assist a biker he had hit at Panchberia in Kharagpur on Wednesday. The biker additionally died within the accident.
Shyam Shankar Dhankuar, who hailed from Maharashtra, was heading in the direction of Chaurangi after unloading onions at Golbazar when he hit Arjun Nayek (30), a resident of Kharagpur metropolis’s New Site visitors space, round 10.30pm on Wednesday.
As a substitute of fleeing the scene, Dhankuar stopped and tried to assist the sufferer. Nevertheless, locals surrounded him and took him to an area membership, the place he was assaulted. The biker was taken to Kharagpur Sub Divisional Hospital, the place he was declared introduced lifeless.
A big police power from each Kharagpur City and Kharagpur Native police stations went to the membership to regulate the state of affairs and rescue the truck driver, and needed to resort to lathicharge. Whilst police have been taking Dhankuar away, the mob tried to grab him again.
Seven cops, together with Kharagpur City police station’s IC Rajib Pal, have been injured and handled in hospital. The truck driver was admitted to Midnapore Medical School and Hospital and later transferred to Kolkata. He succumbed to his accidents on the way in which to the town on Thursday morning.
Eleven folks have been arrested in reference to the incident. They have been produced in Kharagpur courtroom with a plea for 14-day police custody; assistant public prosecutor Bandana Ghosh stated the courtroom granted 10 days.
West Midnapore SP Dhritiman Sarkar stated: “After a street accident that resulted in a demise, the truck driver was overwhelmed and the car was vandalised. Police have been injured whereas making an attempt to save lots of the motive force. The investigation is on.”
Nayek’s brother Sambhu stated: “Arjun had gone to convey meals from a store close to Kharagpur bus stand. I bought a name that he had been in an accident and rushed to the spot. I used to be left alone with my brother as locals have been busy assaulting the truck driver. Once I lastly managed to take him to hospital, he had already died.”
