Retired government employee dies in road mishap

Hyderabad: A 62-year-old retired government employee from Education Department died in an accident at Uppal on Thursday.

The deceased was identified as P Shivaraju. According to Uppal police, they received a complaint from P Shivaji (36), son of the deceased in which he stated that at around 7:30 am his father left from his house in Amberpet to attend to his personal work at Uppal.

While he was crossing the road at 8 am near the Uppal Metro Station, a lorry which was heading towards Nagole from Uppal Ring road in a rash and negligent manner hit his father and rode over his body.

Due to serious bleeding injuries he died on the spot. Based on his complaint police registered a case under section 304 (A) IPC against the lorry driver identified as Mohammed Khaja Khan and took up the investigation.