Mumbai: In yet another drunk driving case,
an 18-year-old youth was today knocked down by a car being
driven by the employee of a private insurance company under
the influence of alcohol at suburban Juhu today, police said.
The police has identified the deceased as Panda Paswan
while the accused fled from the scene after the accident,
abandoning the vehicle but the documents, including insurance
papers, available in the car led police to trace him, police said.
The accused identified as Niranjan Shetty (36),
employee with a private insurance company, was arrested from
his Mira Road residence, police said adding that he was
driving home after attending a party and was under the
influence of alcohol when the accident took place, Senior
Inspector Deepak Kathkade said.
According to police, Paswan, working as a cook at a
Chinese stall, was going to dispose the waste at a garbage bin
when the speeding car rammed him from behind at around 1 am.
Subsequently, the car hit an auto rickshaw and a bus
stop, police said adding that a police team immediately rushed
to the spot and took the injured to nearby hospital where he
was declared dead before admission.
"The accused was not present at the spot when police
reached there," Kathkade said.
"We arrested Shetty from his Mira Road residence and
was subjected to undergo medical tests which suggested that he
consumed alcohol," Kathkade said.
The deceased hailed from Kolkata, he said adding that
further probe was on.
In January last week, Nooriya Haveliwala, a
beautician, allegedly under the influence of alcohol had
rammed her car into a police jeep and a bike early morning,
killing motorcyclist Afzal Maknejia (35) and Dina Nath Shinde
(40), an Assistant Sub-Inspector of the traffic police.
PTI
