Man sitting in middle of road run over by car in Gzb, dies

A 40-year-old driver has been apprehended after he allegedly crashed his car into an unidentified person sitting in the middle of a road, and dragged him for a few metres late on Tuesday night on Hapur Road, where Ghaziabad's district court and offices of the police commissioner and the district magistrate are located. The incident was caught on camera by another motorist and widely shared on social media, police said.

- Peeyush Khandelwal

Deputy police commissioner Nipun Agarwal identified the car driver as Saurabh Sharma and said he was being questioned. "We are questioning him and have seized the car. The deceased man is yet to be identified and the police have taken suo motu cognizance of the offence and filed a case," he said.

Police said someone in another vehicle, which was being driven on the wrong side, was making a video around 12.30am on Tuesday when the car driven by Sharma allegedly ran over the unidentified person, who is suspected to have been intoxicated.