An aged woman died after being struck by a car of Gujarat’s former opposition leader Arjun Modhwadia who is Gujarat Congress spokes person and MLA from Porbandar constituency in Saurashtra.

The accident happened near Kutiyana’s Mal village patiya highway. An old woman from nearby Mal village Tamuben Ramdevbhari Parmar(50) was crossing the road when Modhwadia’s car on way to Porbandar from Ahmedabad hit her. Tamuben had serious injury on her head.

Modhwadia immediately put injured Tamuben in his car and took her to the Government hospital in Porbandar where after short treatment Tamuben was declared dead. Modhwadia was present during Tamuben’s treatment and postmortem. Modhwadia himself took Tamuben’s dead body to Mal village after postmortem and police entry procedures completed.

Kutiyana police is investigating the case.