A 19-year-old drug addict who had gone to the police station to mandatorily register his attendance, crashed into a police constable at Borivli West on Wednesday night while returning home on his bike. The constable has fractured his left hand in four places and also had to get four stiches to his head. The locals managed to nab the accused and handed him over to the police.

The constable, identified as Dilip Pandurang Konde, 51, is a resident of Vasai and attached to the MHB police station in Borivli West. The accused, identified as Arman Anish Idrish Shaikh, 19, is a resident of Charkop and had earlier been arrested by the Charkop police station under the NDPS (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances) Act. Shaikh also received minor injuries on his head in the accident, the police said.