Mumbai: Drunk engineer carshes car into a house, killing dog

A highly intoxicated civil engineer lost control of his vehicle in Vasai starting by colliding into a parked motorcycle His speeding car then swerved into the opposite lane crashing through a security wall of a house before killing a sleeping stray dog in the process This sequence of events unfolded in mere seconds on the intervening nights of Wednesday and Thursday near the Tahsildar office in Vasai WestThe drunk civil engineer identified as Kaivalya Jaykar was behind the wheel of an Innova Crysta but in the FIR registered at Vasai police station the cops mentioned the registration number of a motorcycle The motorcycle owner is considering approaching the local police station in PimpriChinchwad for necessary actionAfter midday questioned the cops about this blunder in the FIR the Vasai police engaged in damage control and said it was unintentionalA team from Vasai police had reached the accident site where a spot panchnama was also conducted and the Innova Crysta bearing registration number MH14GA7127 was seized However the Vasai police mentioned MH14DR7145 which is the registration number of a PimpriChinchwadbased motorcycle The owner of this motorcycle is Revappa KhandekarldquoI bought this motorcycle MH14DR7145 from a friend and my brother uses it to go to the office We live in PimpriChinchwad This motorcycle has been parked at home for the last week as my brother has gone to the villagerdquo Khandekar told middayldquoI am shocked how the police have mentioned the number of my motorcycle in a case of an accident that took place in Vasai We have not been informed anything by the Vasai police I will go to the nearby police station in PimpriChinchwad police commissionerate to inquire about thisrdquo Khandekar addedThe senior inspector of Vasai police station Ranjeet Andhale said ldquoYou are right the registration number of the vehicle mentioned in the FIR is incorrect The complainant had given us the wrong registration number but the Innova Crysta which met with an accident has a different registration numberrdquoldquoWe will record a rectified statement of the complainant It was a typo error and unintentionalrdquo Andhale told middayWhen asked whether the team conducting the spot panchnama mentioned the correct or incorrect registration number of the vehicle Andhale said ldquoThe accident took place at 130 am on Thursday and a police team reached the spot We brought the Innova Crysta to the police station and then the spot panchnama was conducted The complainant had given a wrong registration numberit was unintentionalrdquoThere were three occupants including the car owner Pratik Dave and Jaykarrsquos cousin Anish in the car at the time of the accident but the drunk driver immediately escaped from the crime spot Daversquos father is a local builder in Vasai said a sourceldquoThe complainant knew the driver Jaykar who is a local resident of Vasai There were three occupants in the car and everyone was drunk First the driver lost control of the vehicle and accidentally touched a motorcycle parked roadside Then the car veered off to the opposite lane after crashing into the road divider The car bulldozed a security wall damaged furniture kept on the premises of an eatery and killed a female dogrdquo Andhale addedldquoJaykar is a civil engineer by profession and had been driving the car of his friend Pratik Dave who was also present in the car After the accident Jaykar escaped from the crime scenerdquo he addedHowever the locals identified Jaykar and mounted pressure on the remaining two occupants of the car to surrender him before the police where an FIR was registered against the driver under relevant sections of the IPC and Motor Vehicle ActldquoSince a female dog died in the accident we have also added relevant sections of the Animal Cruelty Act The mortal remains of the dog were sent for postmortemrdquo Andhale addedldquoAlso Jaykarrsquos blood samples were taken and sent to the Directorate of Forensic Science Laboratory Kalina to ascertain the level of alcohol Though prima facie it seems that he was heavily drunk at the time of the accidentrdquo he addedNo arrest was made in the case ldquoThere was no loss of human life only a dog died So Jaykar was not placed under arrestrdquo Andhale concluded