Raghib Parwez is not new to taking airbag slaps. An old photograph that police have found in one of the social media accounts of the 25-year-old shows his face dotted with pink “pimple-like” eruptions that the police described as “silicon bites.”

Silicon dust erupts from airbags when they are deployed at the time of a crash. The silicon bites leave the face and arms of the driver pink with eruptions that last for days.

On Wednesday, when cops arrested Raghib from in front of a nursing home in Beniapukur, the silicon bites were still showing on his forehead, the police said. The police also found silicon bites on his elbow.

A commerce graduate from Bhowanipore Education Society College, Raghib had been into speed driving, one of his family friends said.

In 2017, he allegedly crashed a Porsche 718 Boxster S that sells for around Rs 1 crore in Calcutta into a divider near the ATI bus stop in Salt Lake's Sector III. He left the car there and fled.

The next morning, it had to be towed by a crane. That car, too, was registered in the name of M/S RAA Arsalan Enterprise Private limited. The family had to retrieve the car later contacting Bidhannagar police. No one was injured in that accident.

Raghib has posted in his Facebook timeline that he started a “new job” at M/S RAA Arsalan Enterprise Private limited on September 9, 2018 in Dubai.

According to his family members, both he and Arsalan Parwez were “learning the tricks of the trade”.

“They were just learning to take care of the family business. They would ask us (Raghib’s father and uncle) to take rest and that now they would take care of the business,” said one of Raghib’s uncles.

Sources said, on the night of the incident, Raghib had stepped out of the Jaguar, started walking towards Kala Mandir and then took a turn and had started running towards Rawdon Street.

A family friend said Raghib and Arsalan were like “chalk and cheese.”

“Arsalan is timid while Raghib is robust. Raghib loves his cars and would sometimes end up in crashes. But nothing serious had happened till this incident. Arsalan was more into studies,” the friend said.

Police said Arsalan, who is in custody since last Saturday, had been crying since over the past one day.

“He (Arsalan) has been crying and repeating that he was not in the car that hit the Mercedes, but for once he did not mention his brother. He said he did not know who was. That way, he is a faithful younger brother,” an officer said.

Raghib will be produced before the court on Thursday. Both Arsalan and Raghib will be kept at the central lock-up on Wednesday.

An officer said, if Arsalan’s lawyer moves court seeking his bail, the stringent charges against him could be diluted as it was clear now that Arsalan was not at the wheel of the Jaguar that crashed into the Mercedes, which veered of the path and went on to kill two Bangladeshi nationals standing near the police kiosk at the Theatre Road-Loudon street crossing.