Hit & Run incident in Satellite area of Ahmedabad: One woman dead

Ahmedabad: In a late night incident of hit & run, one woman was dead while four others were injured. The incident happened on Shivranjani – Naherunagar road in Satellite area. Victims are tribal laborers who sleep on footpath in the night. Accused car owner is identified as Shailesh Shah from Mithakhali area of city. There are 9 e-memo fine payments pending in Shah’s name in police records. Police is yet to nab Shailesh Shah, who has not been found at his home in the morning. As per CCTV footage, two cars were apparently over speeding while passing through the wet surface of road in rainy night on Shivranjani – Naherunagar stretch near Jhansi Ki Rani statue. One of two cars – i20 – of Shailesh Shah suddenly went on the footpath killing a woman and injuring others including three children Jatin, Surekha, Vikram and one male Babubhai. Victim Santuben is dead. DeshGujarat

Update:

A 22 year old boy named Parva Shah- son of Shailesh Shah a cloth merchant in the city appeared at the N-division police station of Satellite and confessed that he was driving the i20 car at the time of accident.

He said he along with his three friends were roaming in the i20 car during the curfew hours. He increased the speed of the car after police noticed them on Sindhu Bhavan Road and started chasing them through Vento car. They ran away to Mithakhali after some people gathered post accident and started beating up one of his friends.

A witness who survived in this incident claimed that he had seen i20 and Vento cars passing with very high speed at 12.30 am and they overtook him at Jodhpur Char Rasta. He couldn’t notice the number of people in the car but the accident had happened when he reached Shivranajni.

Late night hit & run incident in Satellite area of Ahmedabad: a woman dead https://t.co/wQ9CaNKAAG pic.twitter.com/wR0Ab6P4hS

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