Car Dash Case: Safari vs Fortuner: How family feud spilled on street near Mumbai | Mumbai News

THANE: Ambernath police probing Tuesday’s car dash case have arrested the accused, Satish Sharma (31), under charges for attempting to commit culpable homicide and driving negligently. Seven people including the accused were injured in the incident. The arrest took place on Wednesday morning after Satish was discharged from a hospital.

Two of the seven victims who were seriously injured are now out of danger, said B R Darade, sub-inspector of Ambernath police station.
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Meanwhile, Satish was produced before Ulhasnagar court, which remanded him in police custody till Aug 23.
Police have learned Satish, who runs a furniture shop in Badlapur, had an argument with his wife on Sunday, following which she left for her in-law’s home in Colaba. On Tuesday, Satish’s father Bindeshwar, mother Rita, and cousins Vikas and Pravin reached Badlapur to resolve the dispute and take Satish’s six-year-old son who was with him, to his wife. Police said Satish had an ongoing dispute with his father too.

When they reached Satish’s place, they did not find him there but took along his son. They were on their way back to Mumbai and nearing 7 Star Hotel in Ambernath when Satish suddenly drove up speedily in his Safari from behind and stopped ahead of his father’s Fortuner, being driven by driver Yogesh Gaikwad, who then stepped out. Bindeshwar tried to resolve the dispute with Satish who got angry and manhandled his father.
Thereafter, Satish sat in his SUV, reversed it and then speeded ahead, dashing into the driver who was about to return to his seat. The driver was dragged some 100 feet ahead until Satish decided to take a U-turn to hit his father’s SUV from the front.
The impact was such that his father’s SUV skidded some 10 feet in reverse and hit a parked bike, injuring Harsh Belekar and Om Chavan who were seated on it.
Gaikwad and Belekar were seriously injured. Chavan was injured too. Along with Satish, his six-year-old son, his mother Rita, and father Bindeshwar too suffered minor injuries. They are all undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Ambernath.