Two men were severely injured after the motorcycle they were riding was allegedly hit by Khairagarh MLA Yashoda Verma’s Safari SUV in village Tekapar under Bori Police Station limits. The incident took place on Monday evening while the victims were returning home to village Chetva after visiting their relative on Diwali. It is reported that the police received information regarding the mishap from the MLA’s security personnel following which a police team reached the spot and rushed the victims to Bori Community Health Centre from where they were further referred to District Hospital Durg and subsequently to Dr Ambedkar Hospital at Raipur. It remained officially unconfirmed whether the victim duo were drunk or not and initial police investigations into the matter suggested that they were riding the motorcycle carelessly. After the mishap, the MLA was taken to her destination Khairagarh in another vehicle while the Bori Police registered a case in this regard against the driver of the offending SUV under sections 125 (a) and 281 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita and section 184 of the Motor Vehicles Act, informed Bori Police Station In-charge Jitendra Pisda. The complainant in the case, Kamlesh Patel told the police that his cousin Hemant Patel and his friend Shiv Verma visited his home situated at village Bade Purda to celebrate Diwali. After meeting him, the duo left for returning to their village on a motorbike bearing registration number CG-07 DP-5319. After learning from an acquaintance that both of them were lying injured at village Tekapar, the complainant rushed to the spot and the duo told him about being hit by the MLA’s SUV bearing registration CG-08 AS-4602. It is also reported that the MLA was heading returning to Khairagarh after a visit to Raipur and her vehicle allegedly hit the motorcycle which was coming from the opposite direction.