Bhubaneswar: Police have arrested the owner of the Thar SUV involved in the Patrapada hit-and-run incident in the city that claimed the lives of an eight-year-old girl and her mother.

Investigators revealed that the tragic incident stemmed from a reckless street race carried out while recording reels for social media.

The accident occurred on the evening of August 9 near the V2 showroom in Patrapada, when Reshma Roul, her mother Revati, and younger brother Mahi were crossing the road after getting down from a bus. A speeding Thar, racing with a Scorpio SUV along NH-16, mowed them down. Both died due to the road mishap.

Police said the SUVs were being driven at dangerous speeds to shoot videos for social media reels. “The craze for reels and racing led to this unfortunate loss of innocen

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