Overview
- Around 3 am Tuesday, an unidentified speeding vehicle rammed a motorcycle near the Kesar Solitaire building in Sector 19, Sanpada, before fleeing.
- The deceased was identified as Prashant Vijay Jamdade, 23, while Harman Kaur, 17, remains in critical condition at DY Patil Hospital in Nerul.
- An FIR cites provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Motor Vehicles Act, including causing death by negligence, rash driving, and failure to render assistance.
- Investigators are scanning CCTV along the stretch and have called two suspected vehicles for inspection, with forensic and crime-branch teams collecting evidence at the scene.
- Police describe a hypothesis about the rider’s head striking roadside barricades as preliminary, and the driver remains unidentified.