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Around this time, a man passing by witnessed the mishap and stopped to help a seriously injured Lal. But even as this person, identified as Zaid Quadri, was shifting Lal into his vehicle, another SUV rammed into his car.

Due to the impact, Lal died on the spot while Quadri was seriously injured. This vehicle, too, fled from the spot.

Raidurgam Police Inspector Thota Bhupathi confirmed that the vehicle involved in the secondary collision was being driven by Sandeep. He was taken into custody and brought to Raidurgam Police Station on Tuesday afternoon. The SUV he was driving has also been seized.

Meanwhile, the vehicle that first hit Lal, while he was walking towards Khajaguda village, has not been traced yet. Police said they are working to track down the vehicle and arrests would be made in the case soon.

This comes barely a fortnight after a similar accident, involving the son of a prominent personality, left one person dead.

On August 21, Jana Sena Party’s Rajya Sabha MP Lingamaneni Ramesh’s son Sanjush was summoned by the Cyberabad Police after his Aston Martin hit a woman outside a mall in Hyderabad, causing her death.

The incident occurred on August 16, when the 21-year-old was allegedly speeding in the high-end luxury car and hit Bharati Mukhi, a 26-year-old mall employee. Sanjush stopped his vehicle and rushed the victim to a nearby hospital where she was declared dead. Sanjush has not been arrested yet with officials seeking legal opinion in the matter.