Ahmedabad: A seven-year-old boy riding a cycle was crushed to death, allegedly by a neighbour driving his SUV at speed, in Gandhinagar’s Sector 5B. On Tuesday afternoon, Devansh Kadvatar had returned home after appearing for a school exam and taken his cycle out for a ride when the accident occurred near Mahakali temple on an internal road. The boy’s father Rakesh stated in a complaint with Sector 7 police that the neighbour, Ghanshyamsinh Chauhan, was driving the SUV negligently when it hit Devansh’s cycle. As the boy fell to the ground, one of the tyres ran over his head.Rakesh (39) told police that Devansh, a Class II student at Radiant School of Science in Sargasan, had returned home from school around 12.30pm and had taken his cycle out. He alleged that Devansh was riding towards home when Chauhan knocked him down in front of a residential plot.Chauhan took the injured boy to Gandhinagar Civil Hospital where doctors declared him dead at 12.46pm, according to the complaint.Rakesh, a contractual peon at the taluka panchayat office in Sector 11, learnt about the accident from a neighbour’s call. He rushed to the hospital and was informed about Devansh’s death. Chauhan has been arrested. Police have initiated legal proceedings and are investigating the circumstances leading to the fatal accident.Devansh lived with his parents and grandparents.
