Car that hit traffic cop had fake plates,say investigators

“We believe that the driver of the car might have been a criminal or might be carrying incriminating items in the car which made him panic and flee when the traffic policemen tried to stop him,” said a Santacruz police official.

The constable is being treated at the Nanavati Hospital and is in a critical condition,said the police.

Avhad,the prime witness in the case,has said in his statement to the police that the car came at a high speed from the Vile Parle side of S V Road. A doctor who was passing by had rushed the constable to the hospital,said senior police Inspector Madhukar Chaudhari from the Santacruz police.