2 police constables injured; teenager held
A 74-year-old person was mowed down by a Honda City at Marine Drive here on Wednesday after a teenager lost control of the vehicle. It also hit two police constables and one of them is in a serious condition, according to police.
The teenager has been booked under Sections 279, 304(a), 337 and 338 of the Indian Penal Code.
The 17-year-old student, whose father is a businessman in Dubai, was driving the vehicle around 8 a.m. He was accompanied by a friend.
He hit Sampat Maru (74), a resident of Ravindra Mansion in Churchgate, who was returning from morning walk.
“When he was crossing the road to reach Churchgate from Marine Drive, the Honda City hit him,” a police officer of the Marine Drive police station said.
Mr. Maru was declared dead on arrival at a nearby hospital.Police constables Anish Kini (31) and Yogesh Nizai (29) were walking towards the Legislative Assembly to join duty, when they were hit.
Keywords: Mumbai road accident, Marine Drive, teenager arrest
Even as we have one more problem created by the ugly rich and their
children in rash driving spree, we have poor attention by the MPs and
MLAs to the city problems. When have they raised the city woes, can
you tell? Added to these woes is the qurk of the logic of the
delimitation commission which has put the various nodes of Navi MUmbai
in rural Maharashtra OPUne constitutency. So you canot opin down your
MPs . The wtin cities problems are peculiar. Even as cell phones are
flourishing and metros and mono rails are udner preparation a letter
posted in the city to a Navi mUmbai suburb takes ten days to rech the
concerned post office and another ten days from the concerned post
office to the ho8uses. Such is the oplight of the Indian Post.
Drunken driving by the rich and their scions has become a real menace
to the city of MUmbai. Deal this menace alongside the one now raging
of protest aginst the police for curbing illegal activities in the
pubs around the City and suburbs. Instead of supoorting the police
actions, there is concereted campaign by the late night revellers and
the drunk driving heros. So it looks as if we have to live with the
problems of the poor and disadvntaged against these created by the
rich and mighty. Where are ourelected representatives from the
Mahanagar both for the parliament and the legislature. MPs do not
attend even meetings conduct4ed by the CM and the Railway Board to
discuss problems of the city rail transport. Only 2 of the five MPs
participated. Equally seirous problems like water upply, sanitation
and health and education get also backseat. Where are our MPs and
elected legislators from the city.
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