In a hot car chase by the traffic police, a drunk driver rammed his car into several pedestrians near Reay Road. On Saturday, Mehboob Alam, 32, a chauffeur from Mazgaon, had just dropped off his boss at the international airport and decided he would fly high on alcohol after that. He bought a liquor bottle and after consuming it, started racing.

During the 4-km drive from Reay Road to Sewri, he injured several people, two of whom have lodged complaints against him so far. The complainants, Mohammad Yunus, 10, and Mohammad Javed, 24, were sitting on a parked bike near their home when Alam crashed into them. Javed recalled, "We heard a vehicle approaching at top speed. We did not have any time to figure out what to do. The car collided with our bike and we fell down and got injured. I got up and started chasing him on the bike, but he was driving at very high speed. The cops started following him, too."