Nagpur: A week after a viral video of a man carrying the body of his wife, who was run over by a truck, on his motorcycle triggered outrage, Nagpur Police traced and arrested the driver from Uttar Pradesh using artificial intelligence.
The Nagpur Rural police used AI (artificial intelligence) through their indigenous tool, MARVEL, to apprehend the truck driver responsible for a hit-and-run accident on Nagpur-Jabalpur highway. The driver was tracked 700 km away on Gwalior-Kanpur highway and was apprehended in less than a week.
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On August 16, Deolapar police arrested Satyapal Rajendra, 28, from Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh, at his residence and seized the vehicle involved in the incident. The hit-and-run case gained widespread attention after a man’s video of returning home on a bike with his wife’s body tied to the seat went viral on social media.
SP Nagpur (Rural), Harssh A Poddar, said that the AI-driven technology calculated the truck’s average speed as captured by a CCTV if it passed unhindered. “AI red flags if any anomaly is found in the calculated average speed and the actual one. We fed information into the system about a red truck which threw up results about five such vehicles. Subsequent investigations led the police to zero in on the accused who has now been apprehended,” said Poddar, adding the vehicle plied between the Chandrapur-Kanpur-Delhi route.
Gyarsi Yadav, 30, was killed and her husband, Amit, 35, injured after a truck with UP registration number hit their two-wheeler near Morphata Dargah under Deolapar police station limits on August 10. The couple lived at Lonara on the outskirts of Nagpur.
