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Police Probe Deadly Spate of Crashes and Killings Across India

The response centers on quick arrests, vehicle seizures, forensic tests to fix blame.

Overview

  • Delhi investigators, following Monday night's suspected hit-and-run near Parliament Street, seized the truck linked to the crash that killed two cousins returning from an IPL match and are searching for the driver.
  • Varanasi police arrested four people after a 30-year-old businessman was beaten to death on Sunday night when his car allegedly struck a woman washing utensils by the roadside.
  • Twelve people died in four separate road accidents reported in Uttar Pradesh from Sunday to early Monday, with police registering cases in Farrukhabad, Kannauj, Gorakhpur, and Bahraich.
  • Separate crashes in Mumbai’s Marine Drive on Monday morning and in Bilaspur on Sunday night killed five people, with police citing reckless riding and a car that veered onto the pavement.
  • In Muzaffarpur on Tuesday morning, a woman and her two small children were found dead with signs of strangulation, police detained suspects after a relative alleged a land dispute, and forensic and post-mortem reports are pending.