A senior journalist who had worked with several national news channels died in a road accident at Kurla in the early hours of yesterday morning. The incident happened around 12.30 am, when Prashant Tripathi, 40, on a visit in Mumbai, was on his way to Kurla from Bandra. The autorickshaw in which Tripathi was travelling rammed into a stationary autorickshaw, because the driver was allegedly speeding, grievously injuring the scribe, who was later declared dead. The police have arrested the driver, identified as Yasin Mukhtar Shaikh, 26.

Prashant Tripathi