'Hit, Bandaged & Abandoned': 43-Year-Old Janitor Fatally Hit By Car While Cleaning Building In Malad, Later Left To Die On Footpath By Driver

Mumbai: A 43-year-old janitor was fatally hit by a car on Friday while he was cleaning outside a building in Malad where he worked.

About The Case

The victim, identified as Brijesh Gupta, was taken to a private doctor by the accused driver, Ashok Gupta, 45, but was later abandoned on a footpath near his residence. Passers-by contacted the victim’s relatives, who took him to Shatabdi Hospital in Kandivali West, where doctors pronounced him dead. The Malad police registered a case against the accused driver.

According to the FIR, Brijesh Gupta lived at Lalji Pada, Kandivali West. He worked at the Auris Serenity building in Malad West. On June 27, at 5 pm, his brother-in-law, Chhotelal Gupta, received a call that a man known to him had sustained a head injury and was lying on a footpath in the Lalji Pada area.

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Brijesh was found by Chhotelal in an unconscious state, with a white bandage around his head. He was taken to Shatabdi Hospital but couldn’t be saved. Brijesh’s relatives enquired about the accident from the watchman at the Auris building. They were told that the watchman accompanied the accused driver in a white car to a doctor at Domicile Lane.

After the doctor gave first aid, the watchman was given Rs 100 by the accused to take Brijesh to Lalji Pada, where he lived. The watchman brought him at around 4 pm and dropped him at the footpath near the Kalpavruksh building, where Brijesh fell unconscious.