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Rapping up the hole issue
Updated On: 31 July, 2019 07:03 AM IST | | Shunashir Sen
The annual recurrence of the pothole menace is top of mind for Mumbai, and a new citizen-driven initiative is using rap music to address it

Five days ago, a 35-year-old schoolteacher, Sana Khan, was driving down the Western Express Highway in Goregaon on her scooty. It was around 4 pm, and her vehicle toppled over after skidding on an uneven road, according to her relatives. A truck was right behind her. The driver didn't apply the brakes in time and Khan died on the spot. Eyewitnesses — who claim that her body was sliced into two — nabbed the trucker and handed him over to the police. The cops put the man behind bars after registering a case of negligent driving. They say that they are now scanning CCTV footage from the spot to ascertain the exact details of the case. Meanwhile, Khan has become just another statistic.
The incident raises one big question — who really killed Sana Khan? Was it the truck driver? Was it a pothole? Or is the actual culprit an unnamed entity hiding in the shadows in the corridors of power?
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