Overview
- Sandeshkhali witness Bholanath Ghosh was injured when a truck hit his car on the Basanti Highway, killing his son Satyajit and driver Sahanur Molla as the truck dragged the vehicle into a water body before the driver fled.
- Ghosh and family members alleged a planned attack linked to jailed TMC leader Sheikh Shahjahan, while state police examined the vehicles, collected forensic samples, and registered an accident case with further action pending on formal complaints.
- Ghosh was shifted to a private hospital in Kolkata and discharged after primary treatment, and police inquiries include scrutiny of whether a local Sandeshkhali suspect drove the truck as alleged by opposition leaders.
- In Bihar’s Vaishali, a head‑on bus–auto collision left multiple casualties, with official tallies differing between three dead and seven injured versus one dead and eight injured, and reports diverging on whether the bus driver was arrested or fled after an FIR was filed.
- In separate crashes, a sleeper bus–truck collision near Fatehpur in Rajasthan killed at least three to four passengers and injured dozens of Gujarat pilgrims, and a container‑truck collision on NH‑44 in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar killed four bomb squad constables with one critically injured.