VINAYAK METE’S DRIVER ARRESTED

MUMBAI: The state Crime Intelligence Department (CID) on Thursday arrested the driver of Shiv Sangram leader Vinayak Mete. He was produced before a court which remanded him to police custody till Saturday.

The CID officials arrested Eknath Kadam, 31, a resident of Marathwada’s Imampur in Beed who was driving the car on August 14, when Mete met with an accident and died at the Mumbai-Pune Expressway.

Mete was travelling from Beed with his bodyguard Ram Dhobale and the driver Kadam when his SUV rammed into a truck. It was believed that Dhobale and Kadam were saved by the airbags, while Mete was declared dead at a hospital.

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