One of the two men hit Sharma with the helmet multiple times that cause brain haemorrhage. |
Navi Mumbai: The Mumbai police has joined the manhunt for the two men who murdered an IT professional Shivkuma Sharma (45) in a road rage incident near Utsav Circle, Kharghar, on February 2. Police commissioner Vivek Phansalkar confirmed this to FPJ on Thursday.
The men on a scooter assaulted Sharma on his head with a helmet after which he died. The issue got further escalated with BJP minister Nitesh Rane taking up the issue. He is scheduled to visit the Sharma.
The duo entered Navi Mumbai from Mumbai and entered into an argument with Sharma for overtaking. The video shot of the brutal assault, however, does not have the registration number of the killers’ two-wheeler. Even the CCTV film showing the killers crossing the Vashi toll naka does not show the registration number.
Hence the Navi Mumbai crime branch has sought the help of a private laboratory to cull the registration number from the blurred video images. Sharma (45) worked as an IT professional at a firm in Vashi and resided at Swapnapurti building in Kharghar sector 36. He was going home from Vashi when he had an altercation with two men over overtaking issue.
One of the two men hit Sharma with the helmet multiple times that cause brain haemorrhage. Sharma who went to the police station to report the incident, collapsed and was declared dead on admission to hospital.
Around 10 teams of police involving local police and crime branch officials are investigating the matter. “We have received various footages but nowhere the registration number of the vehicle is clear. To get the clear image, we have sent the pictures of cctv footage to the lab,” one of the officers privy to the investigations said.
As of now, police believe that the accused were from Chembur. The police have scanned through around 70,000 vehicles through cctv footage via three filters. The first filter was to find a blue scooty, the second was to find a blue scooty with two people on it and the third filter was with the blue scooty with two people having registration number beginning with MH -03.
One of the witnesses informed police that the number started with MH 03 due to which the police are looking for blue scooty with MH 03. Vehicles with registration numbers starting with MHO3 are from the eastern suburbs.
“The blurred image of cctv footage is due to a technical error in the cctv cameras installed in Mumbai. We are told that there was an error that happened during its up gradation. If we would have got the registration number of the vehicle, the accused would have been arrested long back,” an officer added.
