Gurgaon: A 31-year-old canter truck driver died after a colleague allegedly ran over him while reversing another truck near a CNG pump on Old Delhi-Gurgaon Road in Sector 22, near Palam Vihar, on Tuesday morning.The deceased, Madhuranjan Kumar Singh, was helping his colleague, Jitendra Mahato, park his canter truck around 9.30am on Oct 20 when Mahato allegedly accelerated without noticing Singh standing behind the vehicle. “The driver could not see Singh because he was positioned behind the vehicle on the conductor’s side and accidentally ran over him,” a police officer said.The truck’s rear tyre ran over Singh’s face, leaving him critically injured, police said. Mahato rushed Singh to Civil Hospital in Sector 10, where doctors declared him dead. His body was kept in the hospital mortuary as police initially could not trace his relatives.Police said Singh was from Geeta Colony in East Delhi’s Krishna Nagar. His maternal uncle, Bablu Mishra, approached Palam Vihar police station on Oct 21 and identified the body. In his complaint, Mishra alleged that the death occurred due to the driver’s negligence and sought legal action against him.Police said they received information on Oct 20 about an unidentified person who had died in a road accident. Assistant sub-inspector Kuldeep reached the hospital, where the body was kept in the mortuary pending identification.Police registered a case against Mahato on Oct 21 under sections 281 (rash driving or riding on a public way) and 106 (causing death by negligence) of BNS. Mahato was arrested and later released on bail, police said.The body was handed over to the family after the autopsy. Further investigation is underway, police said.
