Mumbai’s Dahisar rickshaw driver stabbed by drug peddlers; Read why
A 55-year-old Mumbai’s Dahisar rickshaw driver was stabbed and thrown into a water body after a dispute over narcotics supplied to his son. One suspect has been charged.
A 55-year-old Mumbai’s Dahisar autorickshaw driver was tracked by three guys from his community in Dahisar following a dispute over giving drugs to the driver’s son. On Wednesday, he was stabbed in the centre of his body and thrown into the Dahisar River.
Mumbai’s Dahisar rickshaw driver assaulted and thrown into a river:
The victim said his son had overused narcotics supplied by the indicted, and a brawl broke out between them after he confronted them.
According to the Kasturba Marg cops, the incident occurred at the Sudhir Phadke bridge in Dahisar at 12 pm, and for over an hour, the injured person, identified as Baban Survase, was thrown into the river till some passersby called the fire brigade. He was saved and taken to the hospital, where his condition was stable.
Police officials said that at 11 am on Wednesday, Survase left his home in Daulat Nagar in Borivali East towards Borivali West, taking his rickshaw for RTO passing, when the charged, identified as Rakesh Kasbe, Dinesh Kasbe, and one of their accomplices stopped him around the Sudhir Phadke bridge.
The three said they wanted to talk to him regarding the charges. Reshma Kamble, 31, daughter of Survase, told the cops that she was vending vegetables in Kandivali when she got a call from her neighbour that the fire brigade was saving her father from the river.
Kamble told the cops that since her brother had passed away due to an overdose of narcotics, her dad had been accusing Rakesh of his demise, “Rakesh is an alleged drug peddler and supplied drugs to my brother Rajesh due to which my father often picked up a fight with him, blaming him for Rajesh’s death,” said Kamble, who stays with her husband and kids at Survase’s home.
