The 24-year-old booked for ‘attempt to culpable homicide’ forgot to change the option from car to bike on the map before heading out to buy medicines for his father-in-law, said his family. They are now scrambling to collect Rs 20,000 to secure the bail of Kiran Patel, who has been jailed for riding on Bandra-Worli sea link.
 
Late last month, Kiran Sunil Patel, a resident of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, arrived in Mumbai to visit his ailing 80-year-old father-in-law in Kandivli. Three days later, on April 26, he left home to collect medicines for him from a doctor in Dadar. The doctor sent his location to Kiran, who set it up on Google Maps, said his family members. The default option on the map is for four-wheelers, which he forgot to change to two-wheelers and set out from Kandivli, they said.  

The spot on the Bandra-Worli sea link which Kiran had crossed before being asked to take a U-turn. Pic/Atul Kamble