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Uncle Remanded After 16-Year-Old Pushed From Moving Mumbai Train

Eyewitness reports prompted a murder case, resulting in police custody until November 21.

Overview

  • Police say the 28-year-old maternal uncle allegedly shoved his niece from a ChurchgateVirar 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.