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Tempo truck rams into police jeep on Pune-Mumbai highway, 3 metro wardens injured, driver held
Three metro wardens were injured after a speeding Tempo truck rammed into a police vehicle near Hotel Pune Gate in Nigdi, on the old Pune-Mumbai highway, in the early hours of Sunday.
The injured were identified as Lakshan Shivaji Shinde, Sahil Pawar and Mohan Gangadhan Awchar. The police jeep, fitted with a beacon light was also damaged in the incident. An FIR was lodged by Police Havaldar Narayan Kangude at the Nigdi police station.
As per the press release issued on Monday, Kangude, attached to the Nigdi traffic division of Pimpri Chinchwad police, was deployed on duty near Hotel Pune Gate in Nigdi. Around 1.15 am, while he was diverting traffic of heavy vehicles in view of the Palkhi procession, a speeding tempo rammed into the barricades and a police jeep, which in turn struck three metro wardens on duty.
Police arrested the tempo driver, identified as Roshan Roy (28) of Bihar. He was booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections 281, 110, 324(3) and sections of the Motor Vehicle Act. Further investigation is underway, police said.
