VIOLENCE erupted in the Wathoda area after a speeding garbage tipper crushed a brother-sister duo to death at Bidgaon Square Friday morning. Soon, hundreds of local residents caught the tipper driver. An irate mob gave him a sound thrashing and torched the ‘killer’ vehicle. The angry residents resorted to stone-pelting. They smashed the windshields of a fire tender and police vehicles. Identified as Sumit Nanelal Saini (15) and her his sister Anjali (18), the deceased siblings were the residents of Jai Durga Nagar, Bhandewadi, Pardi. Suraj was a student of Standard X and Anjali was studying in Manohar Kambli College, Mahal. She was also doing a part-time job. Eye-witnesses told ‘The Hitavada’ that the ghastly mishap occurred when Sumit was taking Anjali on a bicycle to drop her at her workplace. Around 9.50 am, a garbage tipper coming at a high speed from behind mowed down the siblings, killing them instantaneously on the spot. The tipper driver tried to flee but the passers-by and bystanders blocked the tipper and bashed up the driver ruthlessly.

 

As the news about the tragedy spread like jungle fire in the adjoining localities, a crowd of more than 2000 citizens gathered. The irate residents blocked the roads and resorted to stone-pelting. A team of Wathoda Police led by Senior Inspector Ganesh Jamdar rushed to the spot. A team of firefighters from the Fire & Emergency Services Department of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation also rushed to the spot. The unruly mob also smashed the wildshilds of the fire tender and some police vehicles. As the situation was beyond control, staff from Pardi, Kalamna, Shanti Nagar, Tehsil, Ganeshpeth Police Stations were summoned. Jawans of the State Reserve Police Force were all called to assist their counterparts to handle the violent mob. Additional CP (North Region) P P Shewale, DCP (Zone-04) Vijaykant Sagar, DCP (Detection) Mummaka Sudarshan and other senior officers visited the spot to pacify the angry residents who were agitating under the leadership of Congress activist Awantika Lekurwade and others .

 

Cops resorted to lathi charge to quell the unruly mob. After conducting the panchnama, police sent the bodies of the two siblings to Government Medical College & Hospital for autopsy. A huge police posse was deployed when the last rites of Sumit and Anjali were being performed to prevent any untoward incident. Senior Inspector Jamdar informed that Wathoda Police arrested the tipper driver Badshah Thakre (59), a resident of Pardi, and registered a case under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and Motor Vehicle Act. His tipper was also detained, he added.