Chased by the Vasai police after seriously injuring the senior citizen, 36-year-old real estate agent behind the wheel crashes into the compound wall of a housing society
Illustrations/Uday Mohite
1. Driving drunk and recklessly, as per the police, Nishiket More, a 36-year-old real estate agent in Vasai, speeds towards Vinod Kashinath Patil, 66, who is on a scooter. “My father-in-law was waiting for his brother outside a society at Tarkhad village in Vasai West to go for a relative’s funeral,” Patil’s son-in-law Nikhil Raut told mid-day later
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2. Nishiket More hits Patil, sending him flying in the air. The incident happened around 10.30 pm on Tuesday, Dattatraya Gujar, assistant sub-inspector of Vasai police station, told mid-day. “He was driving back from an alcohol party with his friends at a dhaba,” he added. Raut said Patil was flung 10 feet in the air and sustained severe injuries to his left leg and left hand after crashing on the road
3. Nishiket More stops his Wagon R a little ahead, looks back and notices the police and the locals gathering, and flees. The police were there for a nakabandi, said cops
4. With the police on his back, he takes a U-turn after around 3 km, and crashes into the compound wall of Laxmi Niwas society at Parnaka, Vasai West. Three-four bikes parked inside the society were also damaged. “We nabbed him, booked him for hit and run, and got his custody for three days,” said Gujar
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Height from which the elderly man fell after being hit by the car
One of the bikes from the society that was damaged
The accused man’s car crashed into Laxmi Niwas society’s compound wall on Tuesday night. Pics/Hanif Patel
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