Ayodhya PWD Engineer’s Vehicle Mows Down 3 Farmers in UP

Lucknow: Three farmers died when they were run over run over by the vehicle of a PWD junior engineer in Kanpur district’s Bilhaur on Monday evening.

The vehicle owned by the junior engineer of the PWD Ayodhya was being driven by a driver when the accident occurred. The driver was arrested.

The preliminary investigation by police has found that the driver named Ajit Pandey was drunk when he caused the accident. He was taking back the SUV to Ayodhya, after dropping the junior engineer’s family in Sikandara in Kanpur.

He lost control of the vehicle on the Lucknow-Etawah road and ran over Surendra Singh (62), Ahibaran Singh (63), and Ghaseete Yadav (65), police said. All deceased were inhabitants of Billhaur. They died on the spot.

Leaving behind the damaged SUV behind, the driver tried to abscond. But he was tracked down and arrested.