Jaisalmer mishap: Driver succumbs to injuries

Jaisalmer: The 26-year-old driver of the hired car which had met with an accident in Jaisalmer, in which a senior TOI journalist lost her life, succumbed to his injuries late on Wednesday night.
The driver, identified as Dhruvnil, was initially admitted to a hospital in Jaisalmer but referred to Jodhpur due to his critical condition. He died while being taken to Jodhpur.
Dhruvnil was driving the family of the deceased 49-year-old Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey to Jodhpur from Jaisalmer when their hired car and another car coming from the opposite direction rammed into each other. Jhimli, a senior journalist with The Times of India, Kolkata, bore the brunt of the impact while her mother and her son were injured. They are undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Jodhpur. Her husband, who was also travelling with them, is fine.
Arun Choudhary, SHO at Jaisalmer’s Sadar Police Station, said on getting the information of driver's death, head constable Bheekh Singh Rathore was sent to Jodhpur and after the post-mortem, Dhruvnil’s body was handed over to his mother. The car was hired from a travel agency in Ahmedabad. Police are investigating the case.