Bangalore:
The Bangalore police is hunting for a woman who was driving an SUV that ran over a man sleeping on a pavement. The police believes she was drunk.
On Sunday night, Nagaraj was among a group of labourers who decided to sleep out in the open on a main road at Kamanahalli in east Bangalore. Nagaraj, in his early 20s, had moved to Bangalore from a village in North Karnataka to make a living as a construction worker. He had just found out that his wife had delivered a baby boy and was planning to return to his village, Raichur, on Monday.
Shivyogi was lying near him on Sunday night. "An SUV ran over us at around 12.30 am," he said. Some of the others sleeping there also received minor injuries.
The Toyota Fortuner was abandoned by its driver. The police have identified a young girl as the driver.
When the hit-and-run took place, she was with a boy who the police has identified and interrogated. "He was detained immediately and a medical examination was conducted. He was drunk. We believe the girl also was drunk at the time. We are trying to trace the girl, because apparently the girl came into contact with this boy a few hours before in a coffee shop," said M A Salaeem, a senior police officer handling the case.
The police has got a photograph of the driver from a mobile phone of one of her friends.