India, April 18 -- Jitendra Shelke, 55, a prominent businessman from Shirdi who had come under the scanner of investigation agencies for his alleged links to arrested self-styled godman Ashok Kharat, died in a road accident on the Samruddhi Expressway on Friday afternoon.

Shelke's wife, Anuradha, 50, was also killed after the car he was driving rammed into a container truck parked on the shoulder of the expressway near Dhotre village in Ahilyanagar district, police said. The couple's 14-year-old son, Suchit, who was also in the car, survived the crash with a fractured hand and has been admitted to hospital, officers said.

Shelke, who ran a real estate firm, was also the vice president of Shivnika Trust, founded and controlled by Kharat,...