After a week of pursuing the road rage incident of Kharghar, Navi Mumbai crime branch has finally nabbed one of the two alleged accused involved in the case on Monday night. The arrested accused has been identified as Rehan Shaikh (20) while the wanted accused is identified as Faizan Shaikh (20).

Both residents of Nagpada, were traced to BKC wherein the police managed to nab Rehan and Faizan managed to give a skip. “There was a rumour about Navi Mumbai wanting to encounter the accused and due to that fear the duo were busy running to various places trying to hide. They were hiding in Sindhudurg as well in between and finally when they came back to Mumbai, we traced them down at BKC,” an official privy to the investigations said. Both of them worked as delivery boys. The arrested accused was the pilion rider and the one who hit, is still at large.

The accused was nabbed with the help of technical evidence that the police had collected, cctv footage and informers.

IT Professional Shivkumar Roshanlal Sharma (45), was killed on February 3 at around 8.30 pm following a fight over overtaking. "After analysing the cctv footages and recording statements of the eye witnesses, we have found that on the day of the incident, Sharma overtook the accused twice and while overtaking, he spat over them which angered the duo. Sharma along with the accused stopped between Belpada and Utsav Chowk and started arguing which led to a fight in the course of which Sharma kicked one of the accused following which the accused took his helmet and hit Sharma on his head, multiple times," the officer added.

Sharma who did not have any external injury, rode his bike to Kharghar police station and informed them about the assault and shared the video of the assault with the police after which he suddenly collapsed. The police rushed Sharma to hospital wherein he was declared dead.

The accused who were unaware that Sharma had died due to the assault, went ahead and attended Ijetama that was being conducted in Kharghar and left the place by 10.30 pm to their respective residence.

The arrested accused have been handed over to Kharghar police by Navi Mumbai crime branch. The police are hopeful to arrest the second accused soon.

The investigations was led by police inspector Sunil Shinde from Central Unit along with Police inspector Hanif Mulani from unit III. Police inspector Niraj Chaudhari from Unit I and other crime branch staff were also involved in the investigations that we being supervised by assistant commissioner of police (crime branch) Ajay Landge and deputy commissioner of police (crime branch) Amit Kale.

The accused was presented before the Panvel court by Kharghar police on Tuesday afternoon.