Mumbai: Man flings 2-year-old son off running train, body found on tracks

Mumbai: The police is on the lookout for a man from Beed who allegedly threw his two-year-old child off a running train, which resulted in his death. The JJ Marg police has registered a case and is searching for the father, who fled after the incident.

The deceased, identified as Kaif Khan, was the son of Kadir Khan (40) and Samina Khan (32), police officials said. Kadir Khan had come to Mumbai with his family to celebrate Id with relatives, they said.

A police official said, “The family had come to Mumbai last week and was staying with Samina’s sister-in-law at Chowki Mohalla. The couple has five daughters and two-year-old Kaif was their youngest child.”

An official belonging to the JJ Marg police said, “On Tuesday afternoon, Samina was busy talking to her relatives and she thought her son must be playing with other children. After some time when she started searching for Kaif, she panicked when she could not find him. She started calling her husband but he didn’t pick up her calls. Their other relatives also started search for the child, and in the end they filed a missing complaint with the police about Kaif.”

Anil Kumbhare, senior police inspector, JJ Marg police station, said, “Two hours after Samina filed a missing complaint, she got call from her husband. He told her that he had thrown their son on the railway tracks in Byculla. Her relatives told us about the same and we started a search for the boy’s body. On Wednesday, the Government Railway Police (GRP) found his body in the nullah near the Sandhurst Road railway tracks. They took the body to GT Hospital where doctors declared him dead.”

Mr Kumbhare said Samina too doesn’t know why her husband committed the crime. “She is in shock now but she told us that she got a call from her husband narrating what he had done to their child. We are searching for the father, who is absconding,” he said.

THIS STORY FIRST APPEARED IN THE ASIAN AGE.