SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, April 20: Bollywood actor Pankaj Tripathi’s brother-in-law Rakesh Tiwary died. At the same time, his sister Sabita Tiwary was injured in a road accident on inter-state Delhi-Kolkata NH-2 at Nirsa Bazar, around 30 km away from Dhanbad district headquarters on Saturday evening.
A Nirsa police station official said that the incident occurred at around 4.30 PM. The couple was going in a car to Bengal from the Gopalganj district of Bihar when the vehicle reportedly became uncontrolled and collided with the high-rise divider of the road.
Rakesh Tiwary is said to be a railway officer in Bengal.
After the incident, Nirsa police got them admitted to Shahid Nirmal Mahto Medical College Hospital (SNMMCH) Dhanbad, where doctors declared Rakesh Tiwary dead.
SNMMCH emergency head of the department, Dr Dinesh Kumar Gindauria, said that Rakesh Tiwary was brought dead. At the same time, his wife, Sabita Tiwary, has sustained a leg fracture and is out of danger.
