Mumbai: Ganesh Yadav lived in Sagar Kutir in Versova. On Sunday night, Ganesh and his friend Bablu Srivastava went to sleep on Versova beach because it was too hot in their homes. Around 5 am on Monday, a white SUV with registration number MH-32-FE-3033 crushed Ganesh who was sleeping on the beach.
A 36-year-old rickshaw driver sleeping on Versova beach was crushed by an SUV car, killing him, while another companion was injured. A case of culpable homicide was registered against two people, including the car driver who fled after the accident, and both have been arrested. Their blood samples have been taken and sent for examination. The deceased rickshaw driver has been identified as Ganesh Yadav.
Ganesh Yadav lived in Sagar Kutir in Versova. On Sunday night, Ganesh and his friend Bablu Srivastava went to sleep on Versova beach because it was too hot in their homes. At around 5 am on Monday, a white SUV with registration number MH-32-FE-3033 crushed Ganesh, who was sleeping on the beach, killing him, while his companion Ganesh was injured.
The accused fled from the spot after crushing him
Two people got out of the car and tried to wake Ganesh up, but he did not respond. Soon after, both the persons fled from the spot with the car. On receiving information about the incident, Versova police reached the spot and took the injured Ganesh to Cooper Hospital for treatment, where he died. Versova police have registered a case under various sections, including 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 125 (A) (endangering life), 239 (intentional default by person bound to give information).
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Court sent them to five-day police custody
The Versova police arrested the SUV driver Nikhil Jawale (34), a director of a cab service, and his friend Shubham Dongre (33), a resident of Airoli and also a partner in the cab business, both from Nagpur. The accused were produced in Andheri court on Tuesday, where the court sent them to five-day police custody.
A senior police officer said that the driver and his friend were arrested within hours of committing the crime. Initially, they did not appear to be under the influence of alcohol. However, their blood samples were taken to check whether they were drunk at the time of the incident. Though vehicles are not allowed on the beach, the car entered a narrow path passing through slums and crushed the man sleeping on the beach.
Caught with the help of a local resident
A local resident clicked a picture of the vehicle’s number plate on his mobile phone, which helped the Versova police trace the two men within three hours of the incident. Jawale and Dongre had hired the car from Satish for their cab business. An official said the incident occurred when Jawale and Dongre came to Mumbai after dropping a customer and reached the beach, where entry of vehicles is prohibited.
