Cops look for white BMW car involved in hit-&-run case

PUNE: The Deccan Gymkhana police have established from CCTV footage the involvement of a white BMW car in a hit-and-run case that killed a 28-year-old newspaper vendor on Shirole road near Fergusson College in the early hours of September 29.

The vendor, Rohit Ravindra Kangane, lived on the Fergusson College campus. He was going on his motorcycle to pick up newspapers around 6.30am when the car knocked him down and sped away. The accident occurred at a place where one of the bylanes emerges on Shirole Road. It could not be established immediately whether Kangane was moving in or out of the bylane when the car hit his motorcycle, police said.




Senior inspector Hemant Bhat of the Deccan police said they gathered CCTV footage from cameras on Shirole road and Fergusson College road. “We digitally enhanced the images extracted from these video grabs, but the number of the car involved in the accident still appears blurred,” he said, adding that an eyewitness confirmed the involvement of a BMW car.

White BMW car involved in September 29 accident: Cops

Another police officer said, “The eyewitness told us that the speeding BMW was heading towards Fergusson College’s main gate. It hit Kangane head-on.”

Bhat said, “We have a video footage showing the car proceeding along FC road towards the College of Agriculture chowk.”

The police had tracked down an identical car but found that it was not involved in any accident and was not in the Fergusson College area on the day of the accident.

Kangane’s father, who was employed with Fergusson College, died a few months ago. The college administration allowed his family to stay in the college quarters after his death. Kangane was the only earning member of the family. He is survived by his mother and sister.

There have been several hit-and-run cases in the city of late. In none of the incidents, the suspects bothered to stop and take the victims to hospital for treatment.

An elderly woman and her grandson were killed and one person was injured on September 19 night after a speeding SUV dashed into them in Chandannagar.

The driver of the speeding vehicle fled the scene abandoning his car after the incident, which took place in Chandannagar area. The SUV also hit two other vehicles. Its driver did not bother to help the victims.