40-year-old mowed down in Dwarka

A 40-year-old man was allegedly mowed down by an unidentified truck in Matiyala area of Bindapur in Dwarka district on Monday morning. Police said that several teams have been formed to identify the accused driver.

According to the police, the deceased has been identified as, Lal Babu (40) a native of Bihar and was working at a poultry farm in Bindapur Delhi.

"We received police control room call at around 9 am from a passerby informing about a person's body dumped in the area with knife stabs. A team reached the spot and found that a body of a person was lying near the road," said a senior police officer.

Prima facie it appeared to be a case of fatal accident, said the police adding that it is not an incident of stabbing.

"He was rushed to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital where the doctors said that deceased's ribs were broken and he even sustained other internal injuries; however, the exact cause and injuries would only be ascertained after the post-mortem," the officer added.

Lal Babu's family lives at his native place and he is the sole bread earner of the family. He used to send money to the family by working as a labour at the poultry farm in Delhi.