India, June 22 -- A 25-year-old motorcyclist was killed and his pillion rider injured after an unidentified vehicle rammed their electric two-wheeler from behind on the Eastern Express Highway near Vikhroli on Saturday. The driver fled the scene, prompting police to register a hit-and-run case.

According to the police, the victim, Shahabuddin Naushad Khan, 25, and Haqik Khan were travelling from Mumbra to Bandra when the accident occurred around 5 am on the southbound carriageway of the Eastern Express Highway near the Airoli bridge descent in Nahur East.

The complainant, Ajmal Akram Khan, Shahabuddin's cousin, told police that he received a call from Zubair Ahmed, a colleague of his brother, informing him that the two had met with an a...