Mar 27, 2025 09:14 AM IST
In response to the police, the kid, recognized as Ansh Ansari, and his mom, have been sleeping exterior his grandmother’s shanty in Iraniwadi in Kandivali West when round 2am, a person on a bicycle picked him up and carried him away.
MUMBAI: The Kandivali police on Tuesday arrested a person in Surat for allegedly kidnapping and murdering the four-year-old son of a pavement dweller from Kandivali on Saturday.
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In response to the police, the kid, recognized as Ansh Ansari, and his mom, have been sleeping exterior his grandmother’s shanty in Iraniwadi in Kandivali West when round 2am, a person on a bicycle carried him away. The accused killed the kid and introduced his physique again on the bicycle round 45 minutes later and deserted it on the road close to the shanty.
The boy’s mom awoke later to seek out her son mendacity immobile on the road and rushed him to a hospital, the place he was declared “brought dead”. She then approached the Kandivali police, the place a homicide case was registered in opposition to an “unidentified accused”.
Police launched an investigation and after scanning CCTV footage of the world, found {that a} man identified to the household, recognized as Akshay Ashok Garud (25), was the wrongdoer. He used to work with the sufferer’s father and resided at Valnai Vasahat Colony in Gautam Buddha Marg, Malad West. The couple advised police that the accused used to typically take the kid out.
The police fashioned six groups to hint the accused. After scanning via recordings of over 200 CCTV cameras from Goregaon to Dahisar, they came upon that the accused had fled from town. “Through informers, we came to know that Garud was in Surat in Gujarat,” mentioned an officer from Kandivali police station.
On Tuesday, the Kandivali police arrested Garud from Surat and introduced him to Mumbai, and on Wednesday, he was produced earlier than a neighborhood courtroom which remanded him to police custody. “We are now trying to find out what was Garud’s motive behind the kidnapping and murder of the 4-year-old boy and whether anyone else was involved in the crime,” mentioned the police officer. “Apparently he was drunk and angry with the family for refusing to let him take the victim out that night. So he kidnapped him.There is no clarity as yet as to how he killed the victim. We are awaiting the postmortem report to find out.”
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