A 55-year-old doctor was run over by a speeding vehicle in Bhiwandi town of Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on September 18.

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The incident took place on September 17, when Dr. Mohammad Bashir Momin, a resident of Busar Mohalla, was travelling to his clinic on his two-wheeler, senior inspector Maloji Shinde of Narpoli police station said. An unidentified vehicle rammed into the two-wheeler and ran over the victim at Valpada, the official said. The victim's body was sent for a post-mortem, while a case under relevant sections of the IPC and Motor Vehicles Act has been registered in this regard, he added.