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. "We got the car's registration number from the CCTV footage of the accident and arrested Surendra Saroj (33) from his Parel residence," said senior inspector Bhagvat Bansude of RAK Marg police station.According to the police, on Sunday night, Saroj lost control of his Wagon R and rammed into the plastic-covered shanty on the footpath on the service road near Hindu cemetry at Bhoiwada. Sunita died on the spot, while her cousin sister Lata Mahodole and another relative suffered serious injuries. As the car sped away, passersby called the police control room. The police took Sunita's body and her injured relatives to KEM Hospital and registered a case.Sunday's hit-and-run is a grim reminder of two similar past cases. 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. 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. He was driving drunk. In 2017, the sessions court convicted him and gave him six months' jail for causing death due to rash and negligent act. The same year, the HC, after taking suo motu cognizance of a 'lenient sentence' for a lesser charge, held him guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and enhanced his sentence to three years. In 2012, the SC upheld his sentence, which he served and was then released.

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