MUMBAI: A Bhandup homemaker, who had stepped out of her house after almost a year, was killed in an accident on Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road in Powai on Sunday after a BMC dumper truck hit the scooter she was riding pillion with her son.
He escaped with minor injuries. Powai police arrested the dumper driver, Allauddin Sallauddin Shaikh (22) and booked him under the Indian Penal Code and Motor Vehicles Act.
Police said the deceased, Unnati Shirsat (47) had refused to leave her Bhandup rented flat owing to the pandemic-induced lockdown and ill-health. “Her son, Akshay (25), took her to Aarey Colony to cheer her up,” said a cop. Separated from her husband since five years, Unnati was living with her son and daughter.
