Two arrested after auto driver killed in hit-&-run

Navi Mumbai: In a hit-and-run incident, an auto-rickshaw driver was killed after an Innova car hit his vehicle in Sector 9, Vashi, on Saturday. The incident occurred around 3.30 pm near Anjuman-I-Islam AA Khatkhatay English Secondary School.
A local resident said that the Innova car driver, after speedily hitting the autorickshaw, lost control and yanked off the road, ramming into two cars parked on the roadside.Thereafter, the car crashed into the compound wall of a Cidco-built JN-4 type residential complex, causing the wall to collapse.
The Innova car driver who was later arrested and identified fled the spot by abandoning his vehicle, but an occupant in the Innova car was prevented by the public from leaving the scene and handed over to the cops. DCP (Zone-1) Pankaj Dahane said that the auto driver killed in the hit-and-run incident has been identified as Munnalal Gupta (63). Of the car occuants. Shubhash Shukla (42), a resident of Koparkhairane, was at the wheel, and the second accused is Bhagwat Tiwari (42), who works as a driver for the Innova car owner. tnn