India, Dec. 14 -- An 84-year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Bhandup on Friday. The incident occurred near Mangatram Petrol Pump in Bhandup West when an unknown vehicle hit the elderly man as he was on his way to a nearby vegetable market, said the police.

The FIR was filed based on a complaint by the victim's son, Prasad Karkare, 48, a resident of LBS Road, Bhandup West. Prasad works as an administrator with a private company in Airoli. The deceased, Vinayak Karkare, was a retired employee of the Urban Development Department.

"On Friday after Prasad left for work he received a call from his sister around 11am. She told him that the cops had called from her father's phone informing her that their father had met with an a...