Mumbai:
The driver of a car has been arrested for fatally hitting a 73-year-old woman in Mumbai last week, but tried to portray it as an accident where he was not at fault and in which he actually helped the victim by taking her to a hospital, police said Wednesday.
The accident took place when the deceased, Pushpa Dhanaji Keni, was crossing the road at Sion in Central Mumbai to go to a temple, they said.
The suspect, identified as Ismail Ansari, alleged that the woman suddenly collapsed while crossing the road and fell in front of his SUV on September 10, an official said.
However, the driver’s fault in the accident was established with the help of CCTV footage, he said.
After hitting Keni with his car, Ansari called from her mobile phone to her daughter, who works at the Central Railway as a head booking clerk, saying that she had fallen on the road after experiencing dizziness and that he was taking her to the Sion hospital would bring. treatment, the official.
The motorist also asked the woman’s daughter to come to the hospital. The elderly woman’s daughter visited the hospital, where she thanked Ansari for her timely assistance to her mother, the official said.
However, Keni died the next day during treatment and her last rites were also performed, he said.
When an officer from Sion Police Station examined CCTV footage of the area last Saturday, he discovered that Keni had actually been hit by the speeding SUV driven by Ansari.
The officer showed the images to the victim’s son and also to the car driver.
Her son filed a complaint at Sion police station and an FIR was registered against Ansari under IPC sections 304A (causing death by negligence) 279 (rash driving) and 337 (causing hurt by acts affecting life or personal property). endangering the safety of others, and relevant provisions of the Motor Vehicle Act.
The car driver was subsequently arrested.
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