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Five people, including 3 women, were killed and 4 others injured aft a tempo-rickshaw they were travelling successful was deed by a speeding SUV successful Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior district, constabulary said connected Friday (March 27, 2026).
According to the police, the incidental took spot astir 3 a.m. successful Thatipur municipality of Gwalior erstwhile a speeding car deed the rickshaw from behind, which was carrying 9 members of a family.
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Murar metropolis Superintendent of Police (CSP) Atul Soni told The Hindu that the operator of the SUV, Aman Sharma, and his person Abhishek who was successful the car were arrested from the spot.
Mr. Soni said that an accusation had been received astatine the constabulary power country astir an SUV hitting a conveyance astatine Thatipur autobus basal aft which a archetypal effect conveyance (FRV) was dispatched.
“Even arsenic the FRV was inquiring astir it, different accusation came that an SUV had deed a tempo astatine a adjacent highway. When we investigated, it turned retired to beryllium the aforesaid car,” helium said.
The CSP said that the tempo was deed from down and crushed into a tree, resulting successful the decease of 5 people.
“They were declared brought dormant astatine a authorities infirmary portion the injured are being treated. One idiosyncratic is successful a superior condition,” helium added.
The victims were returning from the Sheetla Mata temple successful Gwalior. While 4 of the deceased hailed from parts of Gwalior, a 60-year-old pistillate comparative of theirs was from Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut
The serviceman said that the accused besides sustained insignificant injuries and his car was besides damaged, and were nabbed from the spot only.
He said that 2 abstracted cases person been lodged against the accused, including 1 nether BNS conception 106(1) [causing decease by negligence].
“A aesculapian introspection has been conducted connected the accused to ascertain if helium was driving nether power and further charges volition beryllium added based connected the report,” Mr. Soni said.
