Mumbai hit & run case: Main accused Mihir Shah arrested
Mumbai police has arrested Mihir Shah, the main accused in the Worli hit-run-case. Shah (24) fled from the scene of crime and has been absconding since Sunday.
Police sources told ET that Shah was arrested from Shahpur on the outskirts of Mumbai.
According to the police, around 5.25 am on Sunday, near Worli, Shah rammed his speeding BMW into a scooter on which a couple was travelling. The woman, identified as Kaveri Nakhwa, was dragged for around 100 meters on the bonnet of the car, leading to her death. Her husband, Pradeep, has been injured. By the evening, the city police arrested Rajesh Shah (Shiv Sena leader of the Eknath Shinde faction) and their family friend-cum-driver, Rajrishi Bisawat in the case.
Sources said that Mihir dialled his father after the incident and the two were in constant touch. While Mihir was driving the car, on the instructions of his father, he was asked to swap the seat with his driver. Rajesh Shah also instructed him to switch off his phones, throw the number plate and the party stickers pasted on the vehicle.
On Monday, the police while producing Rajesh Shah before a local court had argued that the father, Rajesh Shah had assisted his son to destroy crucial evidence including throwing away the car’s number plate and swapping his seat with their family driver so that the son, Mihir Shah isn’t booked in the case.
However the defence counsel argued that the remand application was silent on the role of Rajesh Shah. “...Where is his role, remand is silent. What would a son do when he
