Man rides 80km with wife's body strapped to bike

NAGPUR: A motorcycle rider with a woman's body strapped to the seat with a dupatta and racing down Nagpur-Jabalpur highway for 80km with police on his heels has become the unlikely face of a tragedy that might have been initially mistaken for a crime, reports Soumitra Bose. Amit Yadav , 36, purportedly saw his wife Gyarshi bleed to death on a desolate stretch of the highway near Deolapar Sunday after she was thrown off his bike and run over by a truck. Amit was spotted by police speeding down the highway in blinding rain and taking detours through dirt roads to reach his home near Nagpur.

"There was no mobile network and nobody to help. I picked up Gyarshi, strapped her to my bike and rode back," police quoted Amit as saying. "When I saw cops chasing me, I panicked more and I kept going."