Thane, Jun 12 An app cab driver, who was arrested for assaulting a senior citizen in Thane city and charged with attempted murder, was remanded to 14-day judicial custody by a court on Friday.
The driver, Nishant Dhar Shukla, was arrested by the Vartak Nagar police on charges of brutally assaulting and injuring the elderly man, Sarosh Dastur (70), who objected to him spitting on the road.
The June 9 incident triggered an outrage after a video of the attack went viral on social media, prompting Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and his deputy Eknath Shinde to direct authorities to take prompt action in the matter.
Shukla was arrested on Thursday and produced before a court on Friday.
He was booked under BNS sections 109 (attempt to murder) and 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace).
An officer at the Vartak Nagar police station said the arrested driver was produced in a magistrate's court, which remanded him to 14-day judicial custody.
The victim is undergoing treatment in a local hospital.
