Actor T Rajendar's Car Runs Over & Kills Pavement Dweller, Driver Arrested
T Rajendar who was in the car rushed the 58-year-old Munusamy to Royapettah General Hospital but the victim died due to injuries.
Chennai: A pavement dweller was killed after a car in which actor T Rajendar was travelling ran over him last week. After the incident, Selvam, the driver of T Rajendar, was arrested by the police.
In the CCTV footage of the incident doing the rounds on social media on Wednesday, a pavement driver was crawling in the middle of a T-shape junction at Elango Salai-Poes Road in Teyanmpet when T Rajendar's Innova car neared the pavement dweller from the opposite direction. The driver of the car attempted to turn the Innova away from him but failed and mowed him.
According to a report on The News Minute, T Rajendar who was in the car rushed the 58-year-old Munusamy to Royapettah General Hospital. However, the elderly man succumbed to his injuries.
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Further, police said that the driver Selvam was temporarily driving the car on that day.
The police then registered a case under section 304 (a) (Causing death by negligence), Section 377 (Causing hurt to a person by doing any act rashly) and Section 279 (rash driving) of Indian Penal Code and arrested the driver.
The driver has been remanded in judicial custody.
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Munusamy was crawling on the road on the fatal day as he had recently suffered a leg injury while lifting a manhole cover.
The incident took place on March 18 when Rajendar was taking his grandson to hospital and the video of the accident went viral on social media.
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