Overview
- The four-year-old, treated in a Mira Road ICU after Monday’s assault, was described by police on Thursday as out of danger and recovering.
- A local court extended autorickshaw driver Sandeep Pawar’s police custody until Saturday, April 4, as investigators continue to build the case.
- CCTV from the Anupam Ghar Sankul complex shows the attacker pulling the child from a rickshaw, slamming him to the ground, and dragging him toward a stairwell, with the grandmother also assaulted when she intervened.
- Police say Pawar targeted the boy to settle a prior dispute with the child’s father, with medical tests finding no alcohol or drugs and a mental-health evaluation planned.
- Investigators have booked attempt-to-murder under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, India’s new criminal code, along with the Juvenile Justice Act, after the child was first turned away by several hospitals due to capability limits.