Ghaziabad: Hit by truck, BCA student on bike dies

  • | Tuesday | 7th August, 2018

The accident took place around 9am when Dheeraj and Karan were coming to Ghaziabad from Noida on a motorcycle. While Dheeraj stayed with his cousins as his parents and elder brother lived in Pithoragarh, Karan lived with his family. A dumper laden with mud hit the motorcycle from behind and then ran over Dheeraj in order to escape. Dheeraj’s father Kailash Chandra Joshi worked as junior engineer with the civic body in Pithoragarh.“He had left the flat for college. I received a call about Dheeraj’s accident from a local at around 9.30am.

GHAZIABAD: A 20-year-old BCA student died in a road accident after the motorcycle he was riding pillion was hit by a dumper near Tigri roundabout on Monday morning.His friend, a B Tech student, is battling for life at a private hospital in Noida.The victim has been identified as Dheeraj Joshi, a student of IMS college, Noida while his friend Karan studied at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology. The accident took place around 9am when Dheeraj and Karan were coming to Ghaziabad from Noida on a motorcycle. A dumper laden with mud hit the motorcycle from behind and then ran over Dheeraj in order to escape. Dheeraj died on the spot while Karan, who received serious injuries on his shoulder and chest, was rushed to MMG District Hospital and then taken to a private hospital in Noida by his parents.Both Dheeraj and Karan lived in Exotica Dreamville society in Noida Extension. While Dheeraj stayed with his cousins as his parents and elder brother lived in Pithoragarh, Karan lived with his family. Dheeraj’s father Kailash Chandra Joshi worked as junior engineer with the civic body in Pithoragarh.“He had left the flat for college. I received a call about Dheeraj’s accident from a local at around 9.30am. His lower portion of the body was completely crushed under the wheels of the vehicle. Locals informed that the driver of the vehicle was driving recklessly,” said Dheeraj’s cousin Tarkesh, who filed a complaint against the driver of the dumper.Dheeraj’s body has been sent for autopsy and an FIR has been registered against the unidentified driver of the dumper under sections 279 (rash driving), 304 A (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 338 (causing grievous hurt by an act endangering life or personal safety of others) of the IPC. SHO, Vijay Nagar police station, Rameshwar Kumar, said the dumper has also been seized.

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