Overview

• Lucknow: Police arrested Akshay Pratap Singh after a Mahindra Thar rammed an e‑rickshaw in the Cantonment area, killing Mohit and Umesh; the SUV was seized and toxicology checks are pending as rash driving is cited.
• Faridabad: A property dealer, Manoj Kumar, died after being run over in an alleged road-rage incident involving a Thar registered to ACP Rajesh Kumar Lohan; four suspects are detained, the FIR now invokes murder, and police are verifying who was driving.
• Thane: Three youths died when a container truck rear-ended their scooter near Mumbra Bypass; authorities say the driver initially fled but was later apprehended, with residents calling the stretch accident-prone due to speeding trucks.
• Separate probes were launched into multiple deadly crashes in Jharkhand, Prayagraj, Karnal, Greater Noida, Palghar, Himachal and Delhi, with police citing CCTV, toll records and vehicle registration to trace drivers and file cases.
• Delhi’s Paharganj saw a 16-year-old schoolgirl killed when an e‑rickshaw overturned during alleged signal-jumping; in Palghar a 55-year-old died after hitting a pothole and being run over by a tanker, prompting public anger over road conditions.