A speeding car hit a five-year-old boy who was playing on a children’s scooter on the premises of a luxurious residential society in Loni Kalbhor area. CCTV footage of the incident has gone viral. According to CCTV footage, the accident took place at 3:22 p.m. on January 19.
Police identified the deceased as Nishkarsh Ashwat Swami. His father Ashwat Narayan Swami (40), a resident of Joy Nest society in Loni Kalbhor, filed the first information report (FIR) at Loni Kalbhor police station on January 20.
Police have booked the accused driver identified as Atharva Ramesh Kawade (22) under Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) sections 106(1) (causing death by negligence), 281 (careless driving) and sections of the Motor Vehicles Act.
According to the FIR, Nishkarsh had gone down with his grandmother to play on the society premises. While riding his son’s scooter, a car hit him and ran over his body, leaving him at the scene in a pool of blood.
Police said Kawade, a resident of Ganga Heights on Mundhwa road, had come to Joy Nest society to drop his friend. The mishap occurred while he was returning in his car, police said.
As seen in the CCTV footage, the driver of the car stopped after hitting the child. Some other citizens who were at the scene also rushed to help. The boy was immediately taken to a hospital in the accused’s car, but doctors declared him dead, police said.
Deputy police inspector Ankush Borate of Loni Kalbhor police station, the investigating officer of this case, said, “As per legal procedure, a notice has been issued to the accused driver Atharva Kawade for further investigation. Kawade is a student of MIT university.”
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“The victim’s family hails from Chitradurg in Karnataka. The victim boy’s father works in a private company in Pune. The family resides in a rented apartment in Joy Nest society,” Borate said.