Tired of his tantrik’s inability to solve all his problems in spite of the many offerings that were laid at his feet in cash and kind, a taxi driver concluded that the tantrik himself was the root of all his problems. The fleet cab driver, identified as Bachchan Shamdev Thakur (36), smashed the astrologer’s head with a rod, after which he threw him out of the moving taxi and ran over him, just to make sure that he was dead.

The accused Bachchan Shamdev Thakur was a fleet cab driver and committed the crime in the vehicle that he drove