A cement mixer truck driver, who was allegedly cruising at high speed in the wrong lane at the Chedda junction in Chembur, mowed down two bike-borne brothers, one of them a minor, killing them Sunday
A cement mixer truck driver, who was allegedly cruising at high speed in the wrong lane at the Chedda junction in Chembur, mowed down two bike-borne brothers, one of them a minor, killing them Sunday morning.
The deceased, Shahnawaz Aslam Shaikh (20) and his younger brother Yasir Aslam Shaikh (14), were on their way to the Deonar-based civic abattoir to buy a goat for the upcoming Id-ul-Zoha, or Bakri Id, according to the police. Their mother, Rehana Aslam Shaikh (40), who was also riding pillion too sustained serious injuries and is being treated at the Rajawadi Hospital.
The truck driver was arrested by the Parksite police after the incident. “He was driving in the wrong lane and rammed into the bike,” said a police source.
PSI A. A. Ambawane of Tilak Nagar police station said, “The mother and two sons were travelling from Vikhroli Park Site BMC Colony to Deonar abattoir and around 1.45 am they met with an accident at the Chedda Nagar Junction. One heavy cement mixer truck charging on at full speed rammed into their bike sending all the three seated on the bike under its wheels. The brothers died on the spot, while the mother was injured. Yasir was a Class 9 student, while Shahnawaz was running a mobile shop at Vikhroli Park Site. Their father works as a compounder at a local clinic.”
Police officials said the truck driver had been identified as Jairam Majhi (40), a resident of Sector 20, Belapur, who was nabbed by the police patrolling team immediately and admitted in the hospital. The accused was coming from Mulund and going towards Belapur.
“We have arrested him under relevant sections of the IPC and the Motor Vehicle Act and produced him in the Vikhroli court, where he was remanded in judicial custody for eight. Further investigation in the case is on,” said a police source.
