In a stunning present of apathy, the physique of a 27-year-old accident sufferer remained on the highway for over 4 hours resulting from a dispute over jurisdiction between police from Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
Rahul Ahirwar had left residence for Delhi and was crossing the highway when an unidentified car ran him over. Residents of the world gathered on the spot after the accident and knowledgeable the Harpalpur police station in Madhya Pradesh. The cops reached the spot and mentioned it comes underneath the jurisdiction of Mahobkanth police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Mahoba district. They then left.
When the villagers knowledgeable the Uttar Pradesh police station, they shrugged off the matter and mentioned it was the Madhya Pradesh police’s job. Residents then blocked the highway and began protesting, the physique nonetheless on the accident spot. Finally, 4 hours after the accident, Madhya Pradesh police recovered the physique and despatched it for post-mortem. Solely after this did the villagers clear the highway and visitors motion was restored.
Visuals from the spot confirmed the sufferer’s relations crying subsequent to his physique on the highway. “My cousin died of an accident. This space falls underneath Madhya Pradesh, however the physique has been on the highway for hours now as a result of nobody is able to take duty. A Madhya Pradesh cop who got here scolded us and mentioned this doesn’t come underneath their jurisdiction. We wish the post-mortem to be performed on the earliest in order that we are able to proceed with the final rites. We wish the car answerable for this crash to be recognized,” the sufferer’s relative Ramdeen mentioned.
The sufferer’s household mentioned Rahul had married lately and was travelling to Delhi to work as a labourer. The accident, a relative mentioned, occurred round 7 pm. The physique was finally faraway from the highway round 11 pm.