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Metro Rail Crane Kills Engineer At Teynampet

Posted on: 17/Jan/2013 2:37:27 PM
The life of a 36-year-old software professional was cut short Tuesday night, after a Metro Rail crane rammed his two-wheeler on Anna Salai.

S Karthikeyan, a resident of Second Cross Street in CIT Nagar, was returning home on his bike after work when he was knocked down by the crane. 

The police registered a case under section 304A of the Indian Penal Code (causing death by negligence) and took Sanjay Kumar Prajapat, driver of the hydra crane into custody.

Police said the crane driver was heading from a metro rail work site at Nandanam to another site at K B Dasan Salai junction around 11pm when the accident occurred.