Forester among 2 killed as goods carrier hits car

Nagpur: Two persons, including a round officer of the forest department, were killed and two others, including a forest guard, were injured in the wee hours of Wednesday after a speeding goods carrier rammed into a car on the Mansar-Tumsar bypass under Ramtek police station limits. The deceased were identified as round officer Swapnil Jadhav and temporary employee Manoj Ewnate. The injured persons are forest guard Pradeep Suryavanshi and Nitesh Kumbhalkar.The accident occurred at around 2am when the four were returning from a wedding ceremony at Goregaon in Gondia in a car. A goods vehicle coming from the opposite direction hit the car head-on at the bypass in Ramtek.Speeding truck crushes youthA 19-year-old youth was killed after a speeding truck rammed his motorcycle in Sangharsh Nagar area, Wathoda police said. The deceased has been identified as Lucky Vilas Badalwar, a resident of Pawan Shakti Nagar. The truck driver fled the spot. Wathoda police rushed Lucky to Government Medical College and Hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. Man caught with 935gm ganjaCrime branch’s Anti-Narcotics Squad laid a trap in Dhantoli and arrested Nowell Praveen Timothy (37, a resident of Anand Kuti, Dhantoli), with 935gm ganja. PI Sarin Durge, APIs Ganesh Pawar, Manoj Neware, Sahdev Chikhale and Pawan Chikhale laid the trap. tnn