Udupi Congress leader’s son arrested over hit-and-run incident that killed a man

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Udupi Congress person son Prajwal Shetty (right) allegedly rammed his Thar into a motorcycle ridden by Mohammed Hussain (left).

The 26-year-old lad of a Congress person successful Karnataka has been arrested implicit a hit-and-run incidental successful Udupi that resulted successful a motorcycle rider’s decease successful the aboriginal hours of November 13, constabulary said.

Prajwal Shetty allegedly rammed his Thar into a motorcycle ridden by Mohammed Hussain, a 39-year-old nonmigratory of Belapu village, astir 5 am, erstwhile the unfortunate was going to work. Shetty, who was returning location aft dropping disconnected a friend, fled from the country with his vehicle.

A grievously injured Hussain was recovered astatine the mishap spot connected the Punchalakadu-Belapu roadworthy by locals who shifted him to a section infirmary and aboriginal to KMC Manipal, wherever helium succumbed to injuries connected November 14.

The Shirva constabulary checked CCTV footage from the portion and recovered the conveyance to beryllium a Thar belonging to Shetty, lad of Belapu grama panchayat president Deviprasad Shetty.

The probe pursuing Shetty’s apprehension and the seizure of the Thar revealed that the conveyance was being driven astatine a precocious velocity connected the utmost close broadside of a constrictive roadworthy portion the motorcycle was coming successful the other direction.

“The accused fled the spot assuming that cipher had witnessed the accident, but the conveyance was traced connected the ground of CCTV footage and the fishy was identified the adjacent time aft the accident,” a constabulary serviceman said.

“After knocking down my lad and injuring him, the operator of the conveyance did not halt to cheque connected him oregon pass a adjacent constabulary presumption astir the incidental but drove away, starring to his death,” Hussain’s begetter Umarabba, a labourer, said successful his constabulary complaint.

The constabulary initially registered a lawsuit of grievous injuries and aboriginal converted it to a lawsuit of fatal injuries caused by an accident.

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