A 60-year-old pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run accident close to Adda Jhungia village in Zirakpur on Thursday evening.

The deceased, Sukha Singh, was a resident of Chhat village in Zirakpur. His son Bhawani Singh instructed the police that he and his father visited the Adda Jhungia market round 9.30 pm. There, his father was crossing the highway on foot, when a rushing automobile coming from Banur aspect hit him and drove off.

He hastened his father to a non-public hospital in Banur, the place the employees referred him to the civil hospital in Rajpura. But he died throughout remedy. Police have booked the unidentified automobile driver underneath Sections 304-A (inflicting demise on account of negligence) and 279 (rash driving) of the Indian Penal Code and launched a probe to arrest him.