Overview
- Police said Irshad Asif Shaikh, 22, alias Zara, a transgender person from Bandra West, and Kalandar Altaf Khan, 20, died after entering the water at Mahim creek.
- According to the police account, Shaikh jumped from the Mahim–Bandra bridge after an argument and Khan followed in an attempt to rescue him.
- Fire brigade teams, Mumbai Police and the National Disaster Response Force searched the creek before halting operations at night due to poor visibility, with plans to continue Wednesday.
- An earlier caller to the fire brigade reported two jumps around 11:30 am and preliminarily identified Khan, triggering an immediate multi-agency response alongside local fishermen.
- In a separate PTI-reported incident in Chhattisgarh, police detained a 13-year-old cousin after two siblings aged four and two were found drowned and registered a murder case under BNS Section 103(1).