Truck runs over techie, driver arrested

Pune: The Wakad police on Thursday arrested the driver of a container truck on the charge of running the vehicle over a 43-year-old software engineer, Shailendra Singh Rajput, in Thergaon on Wednesday night.

Rajput hailed from Jalgaon district and was residing at Marunji in Mulshi taluka.

VG Biradar, assistant sub-inspector of the Wakad police, told TOI that the accident happened around 11.30pm when Rajput was returning home on his motorcycle.

“The container truck too was heading in the same direction. At Thergaon, the truck tried to overtake Rajput’s motorcycle and in the process, it grazed the motorcycle due to which Rajput lost balance, fell on the road and came under the rear wheels of the truck,” said Biradar.

Rajput was not wearing a helmet, the officer added.

Rajput had come to Pune from abroad about a year ago and was working with an IT company. His father has lodged a complaint with the Wakad police.

An officer from the Wakad police said further investigation into the accident were under way. “We have arrested the driver of the container truck under the relevant sections of IPC,” the officer said.