Overview
- Bund Garden police registered an FIR and identified the driver as 40-year-old Hemant Ravindra Chandgude, with outlets reporting either an arrest or that he was detained and served notice.
- Investigators are reviewing CCTV and technical evidence as police say the driver claimed he reversed to fill CNG, did not see the woman, and fled fearing a crowd.
- Offences were booked under BNS sections 281 and 125(b) and Motor Vehicles Act section 134(a).
- Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis directed senior officers to pursue the case and spoke with Shehzad Poonawalla to convey support.
- The family shared CCTV of the collision and alleged a deliberate attack, while the 75-year-old victim was moved from Jehangir Hospital to Ruby Hall Clinic for treatment.