In the early hours of Monday, a 21-year-old man was killed after a speeding Mercedes rammed into his scooter from behind in Thane. The driver of the car Abhijeet Sureshbabu Nair who is at large is being searched by the Naupada police who fled after the accident.
The driver was booked under sections 106(2) (causing death by rash and negligent driving), 281 (rash driving), and 125 (b) (causing grievous hurt) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and relevant sections of the Motor Vehicles Act.
A resident of Dnyaneshwar Nagar in Thane, Darshan Shashidhar Hegde had stepped out to buy food around 1:50 am on Monday after fasting for the entire day.
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According to the police, he went to the Thane railway station on his scooty to buy food and while returning home via the Mumbai-Nashik highway, a speeding Mercedes crashed into him from behind. Due to the impact, Hegde died on the spot. Though he was rushed to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital, Kalwa he was declared brought dead.
As Hegde didn’t return home, his brother tried calling him but there was no response. Later, he received the call about his brother and the accident. The case was registered after Shashank Hegde’s employer, Dishit Jagdish Thakkar (who owned the TVS scooter Darshan was riding) filed a police complaint.
As per the victim's family, Darshan Hegde was pursuing a BSc course and wanted to study engineering.
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