A man died and another person was injured after a speeding car ran over them while they were asleep in the early hours of Monday at Mumbai's Versova beach, police said. The two men Ganesh Yadav, 36, who was a rickshaw driver, and his friend Bablu Srivastava were sleeping at Versova beach to escape the heat when a speeding SUV ran over them. According to the police, Bablu was abruptly awakened by a loud noise when he saw a white SUV crushing Ganesh who was sleeping.
After this, the two people who were inside the car got down and tried to wake up Ganesh but he did not respond, and both of them then fled from the spot realising the severity of the incident. Later, the two were rushed to the Cooper Hospital, where Ganesh died during treatment. A case was registered against the car driver, Nikhil Jawle (34), and his friend, Shubham Dongre (33), and the police arrested them on charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
They were later presented before a local court which sent them to five days in judicial custody. Their blood samples have been sent to test to determine if they were driving under the influence of alcohol. In July, in a similar incident, a woman died, and her husband was injured in the city's Worli area when a luxury BMW sedan rammed a two-wheeler.
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