Man Kills 3-Year-Old by Throwing Her From Seventh Floor in Mumbai

A holiday court in south Mumbai remanded the accused, Anil Chukani (43) to police custody for six days.

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A Mumbai court on Sunday, 8 September, sent a man, who allegedly threw his friends's three-year-old daughter out of a seventh-floor flat into a fatal fall on the ground, to police custody till 13 September.

A holiday court in south Mumbai remanded Anil Chukani (43) to police custody for six days, said Colaba police station Senior Inspector Shivaji Phadtare.

On Saturday night, Chukani suddenly locked one of the rooms of his friend Premlal Hati Ramani’s flat in Sangam Bhavan Society in upscale Colaba area and flung the toddler, Shenaya, out of the window.

Her family members were in the flat at the time of the incident, police said.

The girl landed on the bonnet of a car parked below.

She was rushed to a hospital in south Mumbai where she succumbed on Saturday night.

A police official said on Sunday that they are investigating the case from various angles, including an old enmity, if any, between the girl's father and his friend.

The official said the accused, who worked at a private firm, appears mentally unstable.

"We are trying to find out the trigger behind the incident," he said.