BMW case: Main accused Mihir was drunk at time of crash: Cops; accused driver sent to jail

BMW case: Main accused Mihir was drunk at time of crash: Cops; accused driver sent to jail

BMW case: Main accused Mihir was drunk at time of crash: Cops; accused driver sent to jail

MUMBAI: Mihir Shah, the main accused in the BMW hit-and-run case and son of a Shiv Sena politician, was under the influence of alcohol when he allegedly rammed his luxury car into a two-wheeler here, killing a woman, a Mumbai police official said on Thursday.

A probe team of the police recreated the accident scene in the early hours of the day to get more information about the chain of events and also confronted Mihir Shah (24) with his family driver and co-accused Rajrishi Bidawat, who was in the car at the time of the horrific crash in central Mumbai's Worli area.

In a related to development, Bidawat was produced before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (Sewree court) S P Bhosale at the end of his police remand on Thursday and sent to 14-day judicial custody.