India, Feb. 3 -- The Gurugram traffic police have asked the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority to urgently repair a stretch of the Southern Peripheral Road (SPR) after a probe suggested that the potholes and damaged road led to the death of a 29-year-old scooterist, run over by a truck near Kushal chowk in Sector 49 in late December, officers said on Sunday.

Virender Vij, deputy commissioner of police (traffic), said that he wrote to the GMDA chief executive officer on January 24 on the issue after a detailed report was received from assistant commissioner of police (traffic east) Surinder Kaur.

A senior GMDA official said that the work is already underway to fill all potholes across entire Gurugram.

"The accident has been hig...