The deceased was identified as police station in-charge Dilip Puri.
Indore, (Language) In Dewas district of Madhya Pradesh, early on Monday, the driver of a truck filled with illicit liquor, while escaping, crushed a police station in-charge, resulting in his death. The officers provided this information.
Officials said that Khategaon police station in-charge Dilip Puri had reached Indore-Betul highway on information about smuggling of illegal liquor. When Puri interrogated the truck driver, So to escape from the police, he drove the vehicle forward on the road divider, due to which the rear wheel of the vehicle passed over the police station in-charge.
He told that Puri was seriously injured in this incident and he was immediately taken to the nearest hospital., But his life could not be saved. Deputy Inspector of Excise Department Pooja Gehlot told, ''On receiving information about the incident, we reached the spot and searched the truck. Boxes of liquor were kept in a secret compartment of the truck.''
He said that no valid permit to transport liquor was found in the truck and the driver absconded after the incident, the search for which is going on. Gehlot said that during interrogation of a dhaba operator and other people near the incident site, it was found that That the truck was standing there since Sunday night.
He said that when the police station in-charge reached the spot for questioning, the driver, while running away, crushed him and took the car away, crossing the road divider at high speed. Sub Inspector said that the driver parked the truck at a place some distance away from the spot and ran away. According to initial investigation, the truck was coming from Harda and was going towards Khategaon.