Garbage dumper driver of BMC mows down boy, driver arrested

An officer from Shivaji Nagar police station said, “Dastagir was playing with his friends when he happened to come under the rear tyre of the vehicle. The road is narrow due to which he (driver) would not have noticed the boy.”

Following the incident, the driver was nabbed by the locals and beaten up. He was later brought to the police station following which the accused Gaus Moinuddin Shaikh (42) was arrested under sections 279 (rash driving), 304 A (causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code along with sections 184 (driving dangerously) under Motor Vehicles Act. He was produced in court and later released on bail, said the police.