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At slightest six radical were injured connected Sunday (February 8, 2026) aft a speeding Lamborghini, allegedly driven by the lad of a salient baccy trader, rammed into pedestrians and two-wheelers connected the VIP Road successful Kanpur's upscale Gwaltoli area, constabulary said.
"The mishap occurred astir 3.15 p.m. adjacent Rev-3 Mall erstwhile the luxury car, reportedly driven by Shivam Mishra, the lad of businessman K K Mishra, went retired of power and ploughed into radical lasting on the roadside and respective vehicles, triggering panic successful the area," DCP (Central) Atul Kumar Srivastava said.
Eyewitnesses said the car archetypal deed an auto-rickshaw and past crashed into a parked Royal Enfield motorcycle, flinging its rider astir 10 feet into the air. The car mounted the motorcycle's beforehand instrumentality and dragged it for immoderate region earlier hitting an electrical rod and coming to a halt.
One of the injured, Taufiq, a nonmigratory of Yamunaganj, was thrown respective metres and suffered superior limb injuries, constabulary said. Others sustained fractures and bruises.
Angry locals gathered astatine the spot and surrounded the car, forcing the operator to stay inside. Witnesses alleged that backstage bouncers accompanying the accused tried to propulsion backmost the assemblage and behaved aggressively, escalating tensions.
Police rushed to the spot, rescued the operator and shifted him and the injured to a backstage hospital. The damaged Lamborghini was seized and taken to the constabulary station, officials said.
A chaotic concern aboriginal unfolded astatine the constabulary presumption arsenic victims and section residents alleged misbehaviour by the accused's associates and claimed that the constabulary were going brushed connected him owed to his family's influence. Some protesters besides alleged that unit was being exerted for a compromise and that determination was a hold successful registering a case.
Sonu Tripathi, 1 of the injured, told mediapersons that helium and his relative were lasting adjacent their parked motorcycle erstwhile the car deed them. "My relative was thrown disconnected the bike, and 2 others were flung onto the footpath. We person filed a complaint," helium said.
DCP Srivastava said the conveyance has been seized, and further enactment would beryllium taken based connected the complaint.
"The injured were provided superior treatment. An FIR volition beryllium registered, and further ineligible enactment volition follow," helium said.
K K Mishra runs Banshidhar Exports Pvt Ltd, a steadfast engaged successful supplying baccy to gutkha manufacturers successful the region.
