According to Indian news portal, the man identified as Mbamara Chideara
Festus, normally stays in Nigeria, but at the moment lives in Mumbai.
A post-mortem conducted at Sassoon General Hospital, said Festus died of
alcohol overdose after a party at Hotel Shalimar, Kondhwa.
After he fell unconscious, seven of his friends, five men and two women,
dropped him off at the hospital in a Swift and left immediately. He was
declared dead minutes later.
A guard at the hospital noted down the registration number of the car
and the Wanowrie police managed to track it down in Kondhwa. Senior
police inspector B D Mohite who is in charge of Wanowrie police station
said, “As per primary information, Festus is from Mumbai, and originally
from Nigeria.
His friends are students in Mumbai, mostly from Nigeria as well. They
had all come to Pune on Friday to attend a party at Hotel Shalimar in
Kondhwa. It looks like he may drunk beyond his limits and then faced its
ill-effects.”
Mohite added, “We established contact with his friends in Mumbai. They
came Pune in two separate cars at the invitation of one of their friends
here. While partying, Festus suddenly collapsed.
One of his friends, identified as Chukwuma took him to the hospital,
along with six others. While treating him, doctors declared him dead. On
hearing this, his friends panicked, thinking they might get into
trouble with the police, especially since they did not have their
passports with them. They left the hospital at once and got in touch
with us only after they got back to Mumbai.”
