NAVI MUMBAI: A 61-year-old chauffeur working for a builder in Nerul, who was allegedly assaulted and robbed of Rs 1,000 and his mobile phone by three men while crossing Balaji Garden in Sector 20 on November 9, died during treatment at MGM Hospital in Kamothe on November 12.The Nerul police have added a murder charge to the robbery case registered against the three accused, who were arrested within 12 hours of the incident.The incident took place between 8.30am and 9am when the victim, Suresh Salve, was on his way to resume duty. He was a resident of Chembur and had worked as a chauffeur for the past 15 years for builder Gilbert D’Souza, who lives at Balaji Tower on Nerul Hill.Nerul senior inspector Ajay Kamble said the arrested accused include Shubham Nadkar (23), a Nerul Hill resident, and two minors aged 15, who live in Nerul village.Nadkar has been remanded to police custody, while the two minors have been sent to a juvenile remand home in Bhiwandi as per court orders.According to the FIR registered at Nerul police station on a complaint by Salve’s daughter, Shilpa Sanjay Nanda (35), who lives in Ahmedabad, her father left home for work at 8am every day.After reaching Nerul railway station by train, he would walk to his employer’s house at Balaji Tower. After finishing work, he would drop D’Souza home and walk back to the station to catch a train to Chembur.Nanda had come to stay with her parents in Chembur with her husband and children for Diwali. On November 9, her father left for work around 8am as usual, carrying his lunch box and a bottle of water in his backpack.Around 10am, D’Souza called Nanda’s mother and informed her that Salve had been injured and taken to Terna Hospital in Nerul. Nanda rushed to the hospital and found her father in the ICU with severe injuries to his head, face and nose. He was unconscious.The family later learnt that Salve had been robbed of Rs 1,000 in cash, a mobile phone worth Rs 16,000 and his backpack containing a lunch box.Kamble said, “After registering the robbery case and recording statement of some eyewitnesses passing by the pathway, the three accused were arrested and the robbed cash and mobile was recovered from them. The accused claimed that they assaulted Salve after an argument over one of the accused accidentally pushing Salve while he was walking along the pathway.”