MUMBAI: Auto driver Ganesh Yadav (36) died after an SUV ran over him whereas his buddy Bablu Shrivastav (36), a courier supply boy, escaped with bruises to his face and left hand, whereas they had been sleeping on Versova seashore early on Monday. Police have arrested the SUV driver, Nikhil Jawade (34), from Nagpur and his buddy, Shubham Dongare (33), from Airoli.Each accused are companions in a cab service enterprise.
The tragedy befell five-and-a-half hours after the victims, each residents of a slum in Sagar Kutir Rahivasi Sangh, determined to sleep on the seashore to flee the warmth.
The accused had been produced earlier than Andheri courtroom on Tuesday and remanded in 5 days of police custody.
The incident befell at 5.45am on Monday when the rushing SUV entered the seashore in opposition to guidelines and ran over Yadav whereas barely lacking Shrivastav’s face. “The driving force and his buddy had been arrested inside a number of hours of the offence. Whereas prima facie, they don’t appear to have been drunk, their blood samples have been collected,” mentioned DCP (Zone IX) Raj Tilak Roshan.
Shrivastav, who survived the incident, is struggling to come back to phrases with the sudden lack of his buddy. “At 12.05am Monday I met Yadav who mentioned he deliberate to sleep on the seashore because it was sizzling in his room. I agreed and each of us went to the seashore round 12.30am with mats and slept. Yadav was sleeping to my left. At 5.45am, I wakened with a jolt as I felt one thing hit my head and face, solely to find my buddy mendacity in a pool of blood, having been run over by an SUV,” Shrivastav informed TOI.
Regardless of autos not being allowed on the seashore, the SUV entered by a slim route passing by hutments. Locals who witnessed the incident suspect that the 2 accused had been drunk. “A neighborhood captured the automobile quantity on his telephone, which helped Versova police observe the duo inside three hours of the incident. Locals tried to cease the SUV however the accused tried to run them over,” mentioned Ganesh Thakur who runs Pravasi Sangh, an organisation for migrants.
