Gujarat: Car plunges into pond; driver dead, one missing

AHMEDABAD: A couple travelling in a Mercedes car on Sunday evening plunged into a stepwell-turned-pond in Ambapur village in Gandhinagar. Police and fire brigade jawans fished out the man’s body from the pond and efforts were on to find the woman’s body.
The incident took place at around 4pm on Sunday when the man was driving his car having registration number from Maharashtra alongside the pond on a road and suddenly lost control over steering and drove into the water body, said an official of Adalaj police.
Inspector Dharmendra Chaudhari of Adalaj police said that locals told cops that two persons — a man and a woman — were inside the car when the incident took place. “The locals also witnessed them opening roof top of the car and coming out of it. But as they came out, they began to drown,” said Chaudhari.
He said that the locals called up police and fire brigade but by the time the cops and fire brigade personnel reached there, they had drowned.
“We, though, recovered the man’s body, his identity could not be established in the absence of any identity proofs on him. Later, we contacted maker of the number plate as he put his website address on the number plate and obtained document of the owner of the car,” he said.
The owner of the car is one Anand Modi from the Shahibaug area but the cops were still not sure that the deceased person was the owner or someone else, Chaudhari added.
This is because there is some difference in the deceased’s feature and the photograph of the owner of the car. Chaudhari said that Adalaj police have informed Shahibaug and Madhavpura police.
Adalaj police registered a case of accidental death and began an investigation into it.