The Pala police in Kottayam have cracked a hit-and-run case involving a KSRTC bus which led to the death of an inter-State worker here a few days ago.
The victim, Mahalingam, was found lying dead after being run over by an unidentified vehicle near the KSRTC bus station at Pala on May 17 night. While a preliminary investigation suggested that he had been mowed down by a heavy vehicle, a post-mortem examination later identified the tyre marks of a bus on his body.
Attempts by the police to examine CCTV visuals of the location yielded little result as the accident had taken place inside a corridor that opens to the main road from the bus station. The visuals collected from a jewellery shop located nearby was too feeble to identify the vehicle involved.
