Overview

• The Surat Crime Branch, working with the LTT GRP, arrested Vikas Kumar Shah in Bandra Kurla Complex and moved him to Surat for custodial questioning.
• The three-year-old’s body was discovered by cleaners in a garbage bin inside the B2 coach lavatory of the Gorakhpur–LTT Kushinagar Express after the train reached Mumbai on August 23.
• Investigators upgraded the case from kidnapping to murder after post-mortem findings indicated use of a sharp object, and authorities said sexual assault was ruled out.
• Police say Shah, recently back from Gulf jobs and staying with relatives in Surat, confessed he acted out of resentment over his aunt’s repeated taunts about his unemployment.
• Teams traced the suspect through CCTV and phone locations across Dadar, Vidyavihar, Kurla and Bandra, and officials noted an early suffocation claim is being reconciled with forensic results.