18 January,2026 05:54 PM IST | Beed | mid-day online correspondent
The collision occurred on the Beed-Ambajogai Road on Saturday evening. Representational Pic/File
A 35-year-old motorcycle rider was killed and his pillion rider was seriously injured after their bike collided with a police van in Maharashtra's Beed district, police said on Sunday, reported the PTI.
According to officials, the police vehicle was carrying Suresh Kute and his wife Archana Kute, the main accused in the Dnyanradha Multi-State Cooperative Society scam.
The van was travelling from Kaij to Beed at the time of the accident, as per the PTI.
Suresh Kute and his wife Archana Kute, arrested last year in an alleged Rs 3,500 crore fraud in Beed.
They were being brought to Beed from Ambajogai under police custody after a court hearing when the van collided with a motorcycle, leaving its rider critically injured, a police official said.
Archana Kute, who was inside the police vehicle, also sustained injuries. Her condition was reported to be stable, the official said.
Suresh Kute was the chairman of the cooperative credit society and Archana Kute was its business promoter. Several depositors have been cheated in the alleged fraud, according to the PTI.
The collision occurred on the Beed-Ambajogai Road on Saturday evening. The motorcyclist, identified as Amol Handge, a farmer, suffered serious injuries in the crash.
He later succumbed to his injuries on Sunday morning, police said.
The pillion rider, Vikram Handge (35), was critically injured and is undergoing treatment, police said, the news agency reported
Suresh Kute and Archana Kute did not suffer any serious injuries in the accident, it said.
Following the incident, the traffic on the Neknoor-Yelamb road was disrupted for some time following the accident.
The police said that it was investigating the circumstances that led to the collision.
A 73-year-old woman died in a fire that broke out in a flat in a residential complex in Mumbai's Oshiwara area on Saturday, a civic official said, according to the PTI.
The fire in Bridge Building in Lokhandwala in the locality was reported at 11:15 am and was doused at 12:09 pm after four fire engines and other fire fighting vehicles were deployed, he added.
(with PTI inputs)
