A speeding car belonging to Ashish Jaiswal, the MLA from Ramtek constituency, hit a car of a woman lawyer on the Nagpur-Jabalpur highway on Wednesday morning. In the mishap, a woman lawyer and two others were seriously injured. According to Kanhan Police, the mishap occurred near Kerdi bus stand around 11.30 am. MLA Jaiswal was not present in the vehicle at the time of the accident. Only Jaiswal’s Personal Assistant Puru Meshram, and driver Manoj Gotmare were inside the car. The collision occurred as Gotmare swerved the car abruptly to avoid colliding with a passing motorcycle and crashed the vehicle into the oncoming car of a woman identified as Government Pleader Manisha Raut. Raut (45) and a resident of Bhandara, was en route from Nagpur to Ramtek for court-related work when the incident occurred.

 

The impact of the collision was severe and caused Raut’s car to veer off the road and into a nearby field. Both Raut and her driver, Milind Dongre, sustained critical injuries and were trapped inside the car. Highway Police officials, led by API Sachin Selokar, PSI Bunde, rushed to the spot and aided in the extracting the injured from the vehicles. Raut and Dongre were rushed to a nearby private hospital in Kamptee, with Raut later being referred to a hospital in Nagpur due to the severity of her head injury. Additionally, MLA Jaiswal’s driver, Gotmare, sustained injuries in the collision, while his Personal Assistant, Meshram, escaped unharmed and alerted the police. Kanhan police are investigating the case.