Lucknow: : A 35-year-old man died after an escort vehicle of PWD Minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui hit him on Tuesday morning. The incident occurred at the Bandariya Bagh crossing in Lucknow. The Hazratganj police have impounded the vehicle and arrested the driver, Mutabhir Hussain. He was booked under Section 304-A (causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code, and was later released on bail. Additional SP (East) Harish Kumar confirmed that the vehicle was part of the minister’s convoy.

Ashwani Kumar Tiwari, a Class IV employee at the civil court and resident of Arjunganj, was going to his workplace on his bicycle when a white Scorpio hit him from behind. He was rushed to the civil hospital from where he was referred to the CSMMU Trauma Centre. He succumbed to his injuries on the way. Tiwari’s colleague and neighbour Ram Bodh Maurya, who was accompanying him to work, said: “We go to office together. We were almost mid-way when a speeding Scorpio hit Ashwani.”

“I had noted down the number of the vehicle,” he told The Indian Express outside the CSMMU mortuary. Tiwari is survived by his wife and three children. He was the sole earning member of his family.