Udupi: A man died after being hit by a private bus near a hotel at Bada village in Kaup taluk on Wednesday. The deceased is Gopal Poojary. According to police, the incident took place when Poojary was standing near a zebra crossing at a diversion in front of a hotel, waiting to cross the one-way stretch of the highway from Mangaluru towards Udupi. At that moment, a private bus travelling from Mangaluru towards Udupi, allegedly approached at high speed and in a rash and negligent manner, and moved towards the extreme left of the road and hit Poojary. The impact threw him onto the road. Complainant Mohammed Hussain and others rushed to his aid and found that he had sustained bleeding injuries to his head, forehead and face, besides abrasions on various parts of his body. He was unable to speak. He was shifted by ambulance to the district hospital in Ajjarkad, where doctors declared him brought dead. Padubidri police have registered a case under Sections 281 and 106(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
