Overview
- Police say the 28-year-old maternal uncle allegedly shoved his niece from a Churchgate–Virar local between Bhayandar and Naigaon, causing her death.
- Commuters in the compartment detained the suspect and handed him to Vasai Road railway police before he was transferred to Waliv police.
- Waliv police upgraded an initial kidnapping case to murder after recording eyewitness statements and arrested the accused.
- A court remanded the accused to police custody through November 21 as investigators sent the body for postmortem and examined the sequence of events.
- Officers are probing motive, citing reports of an alleged relationship and noting the girl had earlier filed a case against her father, who died by suicide last year.