Worli hit-and-run: Two arrested, CM assures justice; Aaditya says 'no political refuge'

Police arrested two persons after a woman travelling on a scooter with her husband was fatally knocked down by a BMW car in Mumbai’s Worli on July 7; Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde said the law was equal for everyone and no one would be spared

Police arrested two persons after a woman travelling on a scooter with her husband was fatally knocked down allegedly by a BMW car in Mumbai’s Worli area in the early hours of July 7, an official said.

Kaveri Nakhwa (45) was going with her husband Pradip on the arterial Annie Besant Road when the luxury car's driver lost control of the vehicle and crashed it into the couple's two-wheeler around 5.30 a.m., the official said.

According to the official, the accused – Rajesh Shah, who was driving the car, and Rajrishi Rajendrasingh Bidawat, the other occupant – were brought to the police station after the incident.

The two were arrested in the evening after a preliminary probe established their alleged role in the fatal crash, said the official from Worli police station.

Kaveri and her husband are fisherfolk and were on their way home in Worli Koliwada from Sassoon Dock in Colaba when the BMW car hit their scooter, he said.

“Kaveri Nakhwa fell on the road. Passersby alerted police about the incident. She was rushed to civic-run Nair Hospital where doctors declared her dead on arrival,” the official said.

Shah and Bidawat have been booked under sections, including 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which recently replaced the Indian Penal Code, he said.