EMMETT TOWNSHIP — A promoter for the popular Indian musical group RFAK was being treated at Borgess Medical Center Sunday night following a crash on I-94 in Calhoun County that killed the group’s Bollywood event manager.
Gulam Mustafa, 33, was listed in stable condition at the hospital, a Borgess official said.
The crash occurred Saturday night on the highway near the exit for Firekeepers Casino in Emmett Township just east of Battle Creek. Police said Chtresh Shrivastava, of Mumbai, India, was pronounced dead at the scene after the 1999 Lexus he was riding in flipped several times into a ditch.
Police said the car was headed to Chicago from Detroit for an evening show.
Shrivastava, according to international press and blogs, is a manager for Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, an international-touring Pakastani musician who has several Bollywood soundtracks and several Hollywood movies as well.
Police said Rahat and musicians were not in the car at the time of the crash.
Three other people — Harminder Sabharwal, 33, Maroof Ali, 33, and Deepak Kumar, 46 — also were hurt in the crash and taken to Bronson Methodist Hospital for treatment. A Bronson official said Sunday that he had no information about Sabharwal’s condition and that Ali and Kumar were not listed as being patients at the hospital.
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