Two men out on a joyride in Mumbai ran over two men sleeping at Versova beach, killing a 36-year-old auto-rickshaw driver and leaving the other injured. The driver of the SUV and his friend were arrested following an extensive search after they fled the scene. Both were produced in an Andheri court and sent to five-day police custody on Tuesday (August 13), said news agency ANI.
According to reports, the victim was identified as Ganesh Vikram Yadav from Sagar Kutir area and the injured man as Bablu Shrivastava, who is a delivery boy from Andheri. Police said the incident took place early on Monday (August 12) when the two friends were sleeping outside due to the heat and humidity.
Police identified the main accused and SUV driver as 34-year-old Nikhil Dilip Jawate from Nagpur and his friend as 33-year-old Shubham Ashok Dongre from Airoli in Navi Mumbai. They were nabbed after the vehicle was traced.
Their blood samples have been sent for testing to determine if they were driving under influence, police said.
“Around 5.45 am, I was abruptly awakened by a blunt impact on my head and hand. I saw a car running over Ganesh, who was sleeping beside me. He sustained serious injuries to his head and face, and was lying unconscious. Two men got out of the white SUV… Upon seeing Yadav seriously injured… they fled the scene as people began to gather,” Shrivastava told police in his statement, as per a report published in The Indian Express.
Police further said Ganesh’s brother Bajrangi Yadav rushed them to Cooper Hospital, but the auto-rickshaw driver was declared dead there. An FIR was registered based on Shrivastava’s statement and other witness statements.
A senior inspector said Jawate was dropping off a customer in Mumbai and had borrowed the vehicle for a cab service. “Vehicles are not allowed on the beach. But, they somehow managed to enter. They were aware that people were sleeping on the beach when they drove the vehicle over them,” senior inspector Ganesh Pawar of Versova police station was quoted as saying.
The case was registered under sections 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 125A (negligent act causing hurt), 239 (intentional omission to give information of an offence by a person bound to inform), 281 (rash driving or riding on a public way), and 3(5) (common intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Sections pertaining to failure in securing medical attention for the injured and failure in informing police in the Motor Vehicle Act were also added.
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