<p>Following the death of a 21-year-old student on Tuesday evening near Hosakote, the police have registered a criminal case against officials of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) amid allegations that the absence of a service road had led to the accident.</p>.<p>The deceased has been identified as Chaitanya, a resident of Koraluru and a B.Com student in a private college in Hosakote. She was returning home after college when an overspeeding concrete mixer truck rammed into the electric scooter she was riding near Koraluru Gate on the Bengaluru-Chennai Expressway, at around 4.30 pm. The truck rammed into the scooter from behind and dragged Chaitanya and her vehicle across the road for a few metres. Chaitanya died on the spot.</p>.<p>The incident led to outrage among local residents. More than 100 people, including members of Chaitanya's family, gathered at the accident site and staged a protest against NHAI officials for not having provided a service road on the stretch. The locals called off the protest only after NHAI officials and police officials assured them of a service road. </p>.<p>According to the police and local residents, the NHAI has blocked the road from Dandupalya village side to Koraluru village, and the authority has not provided a service road at the Koraluru Gate, making it an accident-prone stretch of the highway.</p>.<p>The Hosakote Police have registered a case of criminal negligence against the truck driver and NHAI officials in charge of the expressway under Section 304 A of the IPC (causing death by negligence). </p>.<p>The truck driver left the vehicle at the accident site and fled. Police said efforts were on to trace him. </p>
<p>Following the death of a 21-year-old student on Tuesday evening near Hosakote, the police have registered a criminal case against officials of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) amid allegations that the absence of a service road had led to the accident.</p>.<p>The deceased has been identified as Chaitanya, a resident of Koraluru and a B.Com student in a private college in Hosakote. She was returning home after college when an overspeeding concrete mixer truck rammed into the electric scooter she was riding near Koraluru Gate on the Bengaluru-Chennai Expressway, at around 4.30 pm. The truck rammed into the scooter from behind and dragged Chaitanya and her vehicle across the road for a few metres. Chaitanya died on the spot.</p>.<p>The incident led to outrage among local residents. More than 100 people, including members of Chaitanya's family, gathered at the accident site and staged a protest against NHAI officials for not having provided a service road on the stretch. The locals called off the protest only after NHAI officials and police officials assured them of a service road. </p>.<p>According to the police and local residents, the NHAI has blocked the road from Dandupalya village side to Koraluru village, and the authority has not provided a service road at the Koraluru Gate, making it an accident-prone stretch of the highway.</p>.<p>The Hosakote Police have registered a case of criminal negligence against the truck driver and NHAI officials in charge of the expressway under Section 304 A of the IPC (causing death by negligence). </p>.<p>The truck driver left the vehicle at the accident site and fled. Police said efforts were on to trace him. </p>