The woman Collector of Krishnagiri district was injured today in an accident that left her assistant dead at Namasparai town, police said. Collector Pooja Kulkarni, along with Deputy Tahsildar Jaishankar, her assistant and the driver were on their way to Dharmapuri in her car when it rammed into a bus near a bus stand at Namasparai near Krishnagiri, they said.
The assistant died while being taken to hospital, they said. Kulkarni was initially taken to Government Hospital at Krishnagiri, which referred her to a private hospital in Bangalore, they said. Meanwhile Chief Minister Jayalalithaa expressed shock over the accident and condoled the death of the assistant, Muniraj.
In a statement, she also announced a solatium of Rs one lakh to Muniraj’s family from the Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund and wished the injured a speedy recovery.
–PTI–