Mumbai: Driver who ran over Vasai couple on morning walk held
Sandhya Nair | TNN | Updated: Jan 2, 2019, 18:23 IST
MUMBAI: The police on Wednesday arrested an unidentified cab driver who had rammed his car multiple times into a couple on a morning walk in Vasai last month.
The accused identified as Triveni Pandey (40), is an Ola driver and resident of Nagindas Pada in Nalasopara (East).
On December 21 at around 6.15 am Pandey’s white colour Swift Dzire car had rammed into Sikander Ali (42) and his wife Salma (36). While Salma escaped with minor injuries, the cab ran over Ali several times before fleeing. An architect, Ali sustained serious injuries on his chest and rib bones. He is under treatment in a hospital.
Closed circuit television (CCTV) installed outside the housing society where the couple reside had captured the chilling accident.
Mumbai: Car hits Vasai couple during morning walk, CCTV captures incident +
Ali had only made up his mind to go for a morning walk. The couple set out for their walk by around 5.30am. By 6.15am, they were heading back to their Anand Shraddha building in sector 2, Evershine.
The CCTV shows the car running over Ali, the driver halts for a second and restarts the vehicle, the wheels run over him again after which the driver fled from the scene. Locals rushed to help the couple and then admitted them to the hospital.
Additional superintendent of police Vijaykant Sagar said that as it was dark the CCTV images could only capture four digits of the vehicle registration number. He said that armed with four digits the investigating officer Archana Dushane contacted car aggregators Ola and Uber for details of vehicles with the given registration number.
Cops even checked the RTO records for commercial vehicles ending with the digits 5803. Pandey had fled to his native town in Uttar Pradesh.
Police traced and arrested him on Monday night. He was produced before the Vasai court on Tuesday and remanded to police custody.
Sagar said that the police are investigating whether Pandey was drunk on the day of accident. Pandey has reportedly admitted to the crime and told the police that after the incident he got panicked and fled the scene fearing a mob attack.
The police have booked him for negligent driving.
The accused identified as Triveni Pandey (40), is an Ola driver and resident of Nagindas Pada in Nalasopara (East).
On December 21 at around 6.15 am Pandey’s white colour Swift Dzire car had rammed into Sikander Ali (42) and his wife Salma (36). While Salma escaped with minor injuries, the cab ran over Ali several times before fleeing. An architect, Ali sustained serious injuries on his chest and rib bones. He is under treatment in a hospital.
Closed circuit television (CCTV) installed outside the housing society where the couple reside had captured the chilling accident.
Mumbai: Car hits Vasai couple during morning walk, CCTV captures incident +
Ali had only made up his mind to go for a morning walk. The couple set out for their walk by around 5.30am. By 6.15am, they were heading back to their Anand Shraddha building in sector 2, Evershine.
The CCTV shows the car running over Ali, the driver halts for a second and restarts the vehicle, the wheels run over him again after which the driver fled from the scene. Locals rushed to help the couple and then admitted them to the hospital.
Additional superintendent of police Vijaykant Sagar said that as it was dark the CCTV images could only capture four digits of the vehicle registration number. He said that armed with four digits the investigating officer Archana Dushane contacted car aggregators Ola and Uber for details of vehicles with the given registration number.
Cops even checked the RTO records for commercial vehicles ending with the digits 5803. Pandey had fled to his native town in Uttar Pradesh.
Police traced and arrested him on Monday night. He was produced before the Vasai court on Tuesday and remanded to police custody.
Sagar said that the police are investigating whether Pandey was drunk on the day of accident. Pandey has reportedly admitted to the crime and told the police that after the incident he got panicked and fled the scene fearing a mob attack.
The police have booked him for negligent driving.
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