Navi Mumbai: Five days after the incident in which an unidentified car driver accompanied by his friend had dragged a constable on the car bonnet for around 100 metres when stopped by the police team during routine nakabandi checking of vehicles at a junction on the internal road in Kalamboli and caused injury to the constable, the accused car driver was arrested from Jalgaon on Friday. His friend accompanying him in the car was arrested from Parner, Ahilyanagar district on the same day.Dilip Chavan, police inspector (crime), informed that the arrested accused car driver has been identified as Soham Kumawat (22) from Jalgaon and his friend Swajal Tayade (23) from Parner, Ahilyanagar district. Kumawat and Tayade were apprehended by two separate police teams which were formed to trace the car.The incident had occurred at a road junction near D-Mart on Nov 8 past midnight, around 1.30 am, and it was captured on the CCTV camera surveillance. The injured constable Dilip Bhoi (43) was rushed to Satyam Multi-speciality hospital in Kalamboli, where the doctors said that his right heel was fractured. As constable Bhoi resided in Koparkhairane, he was taken to the nearest MGM hospital, Vashi, for further treatment. His fractured heel was plastered and he was discharged as the orthopaedic surgeon said that his fractured heel might recover in plaster and after follow-up for further treatment, if necessitated, he might have to undergo surgery.PI Chavan said, “An attempt to murder case was registered against an unidentified accused car driver and his aide as a co-accused. As the CCTV camera surveillance at the incident spot did not have night vision facility, the car’s registration number could not be captured. However, we scanned CCTV footages on the stretch of road along which the accused car driver sped away. The clear image of the car’s registration number with Jalgaon passing was obtained from the CCTV footage of Pallavi Avida hotel at Roadpali, Kalamboli. As reported by some media that the car was fitted with fake registration number plate, when checked with the concerned RTO and it was confirmed that the registration number was not fake. The car was registered in the name of the accused Kumawat’s father. One police team reached Jalgaon and arrested Kumawat on Friday. He revealed the name and address of his aide Tayade, who was arrested by another police team from Parner, Ahilyanagar district on the same day. We obtained the transit remand of both the accused. On Saturday, both arrested accused Kumawat and Tayade were produced before the Panvel court that remanded them to police custody for two days.
