Palghar, Two students died and three others were seriously injured after the motorcycle they were riding slipped and fell in a roadside pit as they were returning to their ashram school after attending a village fair in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, police said on Tuesday.
The incident took place in the wee hours of Monday in Jawhar taluka, following which the headmaster, warden, and watchman of the Hiradpada Gagangiri Ashram School were placed under suspension as these five students had secretly stepped out of the school to attend Navratri festival in nearby Sarsun village. “The students managed to leave the hostel and rode together on a single motorcycle. A motorist passing by alerted the Jawhar police, following which the victims were initially rushed to a cottage hospital in Jawhar. Following the incident, questions were raised as to how five students managed to slip out of the hostel late at night undetected, bypassing the supervision of the school headmaster, hostel warden, and night watchman.
their two-wheeler met with a horrific crash in Kongdi ghat, which resulted in the death of two students, identified as Sumit Motiram Bhingal , Pritam Ganesh Potinda While returning to the school between 2.30 am 3 am on October 19.
The other three students sustained critical injuries,” a Jawhar police station official said. Bud considering their critical condition, they were subsequently shifted to a hospital in Nashik for advanced medical care, he said.
