Mumbai: The birthday sightseeing became very wrong for a group of seven young men when their SUV was upside down on the Aksa Malad beach on Saturday, killing one and hurt the rest.
A 22 year old student, Ritik Kale, who was in the steering wheel, had been arrested.
Malwani police said they were suspicious of at least some drunken men.
Kale’s blood sample has been sent for the test to determine whether he was driving under the influence of alcohol.
The coast guard at Aksa Beach who witnessed the incident said the SUV entered the sandy part of the beach even though the guidelines forbid them.
The group lives in Ghatkopar and celebrates Akshay Pawar’s birthday, 27.
They departed in the SUV and reached the Aksa at around 4:30 p.m.
“Usually, there are police who patrol stretches outside the coast.
But on Saturday, they were diverted to handle complaints of traffic congestion.
The group took advantage of the fact that there were no police who directed the vehicle to the sandy part on the coast.” Commissioned Officer.
The SUV attracted a lot of attention when men shouted and honked at other visitors.
“Two of men stood on a footing of a car that moved on both sides.
The vehicle moved between 60 to 70 kmps and we were worried that those people might be hurt,” said a civil lifeguard, Nathuram Suryavanshi.
The police said Kale was an inexperienced driver but asked for pawar to let him take the steering wheel.
Kale, however, can not control the vehicle while executing u-turn and reverse SUV to the side.
Rahul Yadav, a 22-year-old BPO employee, has stood in one footprint and destroyed.
The coast guards rushed to the car and joined other observers.
“It takes a dozen of us to move the SUV back to upright and release Yadav from below.
We bring it to stretcher to the main road and send it into the autorickshaw to the hospital.
His friends came out of the car.
They alone and two of them went to the house Sick with Yadav, “Suryavanshi said.
At the hospital, Yadav was pronounced dead by a doctor.
His body was sent for autopsy.
The other in the car is Tejas Kadam, 27, Sharad Salehar, 24, Mritunjay Chakhari, 25 and Nikhil Chikne, 23.
One of them broke his arm while the rest suffered a minor injury, police said.
Dangerous negligence and driving cases are registered against Kale based on the provisions of IPC and motorized vehicles.