India, June 25 -- A 23-year-old law student died, and his friend was critically injured after a speeding car mowed them down on the service lane of the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway near Hero Honda Chowk around 3.30am on Tuesday, police said.

The deceased, Harsh Singhal, a resident of Om Vihar in Sector 23, was a second-year LLB student at a local college. His friend Abhishek Kumar, also 23 and a resident of Shanti Nagar in Sector 11, sustained multiple fractures and remains in critical condition, police added.

According to investigators, the two friends had stopped for snacks at Chanchal Hotel on the expressway and were chatting near the metal guard rail when a white Skoda Rapid - bearing a Hisar registration - came speeding down the service...