Mumbai Truck Driver Gets Life for Mulund Toll-Plaza Road-Rage Murder

Overview

• A Mumbai sessions court on Tuesday sentenced 33-year-old trucker Noor Mohmad Ibrar Ali Shah to life for murdering shopkeeper Bhavesh Ramesh Soni near the Mulund toll plaza in 2023.
• The case traced back to May 11, 2023, when a truck clipped Soni’s car before the toll lanes, a dispute followed at the plaza, and the driver drove forward as Soni stood in front.
• Investigators built the case with CCTV that captured the truck’s number plate, identifications by two toll staff in a test parade and in court, and paint scrapings that matched damage on the victims’ car.
• The judge found the act was intentional and said the driver knew that running a heavy truck over a person would, in all probability, cause death.
• The court declined the death penalty under the “rarest of rare” standard and added three years for attempt to murder, with both terms running at the same time.