Car runs over family sleeping on Mumbai footpath

Mumbai | Wednesday | 20th March, 2019

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In 2017, the sessions court convicted him and gave him six months' jail for causing death due to rash and negligent act. MUMBAI: Two days after a private tourist car ran over a family sleeping on the footpath in Bhoiwada, killing one, the police nabbed the driver on Tuesday based on CCTV footage of the hit-and-run incident. In December 2015, the Bombay high court acquitted Khan of all criminal charges for lack of substantial evidence, seven months after the sessions court held him guilty. The state's appeal against acquittal is pending before the Supreme Court.In November 2006, Alistair Pereira, then 21, a Bandra businessman's son, ran over 15 construction workers sleeping on the pavement at Carter Road, killing seven. In September 28, 2002, actor Salman Khan's Land Cruiser rammed into a bakery in Bandra, killing one person and injuring four sleeping on the steps..