Biker on way to Kol from Ranchi dies in highway accident

Kolkata/Howrah: A young merchant navy professional and avid biker was killed on his way back home to Kolkata from Ranchi on his bike in a road accident on Kona Expressway early on Friday. Tanmay Kumar (33) was left at a Howrah morgue as an unidentified body as his newly-wed wife, parents and other family members looked for him and lodged missing complaints in Jharkhand and Bengal.
Cops said Kumar had met with an accident near Jalan industrial complex on Kona Expressway around 20kms from Kolkata. Officers told Kumar’s family that his phone and wallet were stolen. The bike had a Jharkhand registration number and local cops were alerted accordingly. However, his identity couldn’t be ascertained, a senior officer of Howrah rural police said. It was after Kumar’s family members began reaching out to senior police and government officials in Bengal and Jharkhand that Domjur police called Kumar’s wife Subhasmita Maity, asking her to identify an accident victim’s body.
Maity and her brother Bireshwar identified Kumar. His body was handed over to the family on Sunday afternoon. “My sister was married in April. They had moved to an apartment in Tiljala. My brother-in-law was an avid biker. I can’t believe his passion for riding killed him,” he said.
Family members said Kumar had gone to Ranchi for a family engagement. He left for home around 8pm on Thursday. Maity had called around 12.40am on Friday but couldn’t hear him. Kumar had spoken to a friend around the same time when he said he was at Kharagpur and on his way to Kolkata. “According to CCTV footage, the biker was riding at a high speed. He rammed into a truck. He was dead by the time officers spotted him and took him to the hospital,” said a senior officer of Howrah rural police.