The Mumbai Police arrested three persons in connection with the death of a 9-year-old boy due to electrocution at a housing society in the western suburbs of the city, an official said on Monday, reported the PTI.
The police on Saturday arrested the chairman, secretary and an electrician of a housing society in Goregaon for the incident that occurred on April 14, the official said, according to the PTI.
The 9-year-old boy identified as Aryaveer Chaudhari, was playing with his friends in the basement of the building when he came in contact with a live wire and died, he said, as per the PTI.
Based on a complaint lodged by the boy`s father, the police registered an FIR under section 304 A (causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code and arrested the three accused, the official said.
In an another incident, the Mumbai Police on Monday arrested a man for allegedly attacking and killing a 16-year-old boy in a dispute about a girl in Ghatkopar, an official said, reported the PTI.
The police apprehended the suspect, 19-year-old Rushikesh Gurav, from Diva in neighbouring Thane district of Maharashtra for the attack that took place on Sunday night, the official from the crime branch said, according to the PTI.
The victim had warned Gurav against meeting a girl from his locality in the eastern suburb of Ghatkopar in Mumbai, he said, as per the PTI.
When Gurav reached the locality to meet the girl, the victim confronted him but was attacked with a sharp weapon, the official said.
The suspect fled the scene, and locals noticed the injured boy and rushed him to a hospital, where he was declared dead, he said.
The police established the identity of the accused based on the CCTV footage from the area, and a case has been registered against him under section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code, he added.
Meanwhile, the police arrested a 44-year-old brick kiln worker for allegedly killing his wife in Maharashtra`s Palghar district after a fight, an official said on Monday, reported news agency PTI.
The incident took place on the intervening night of Friday-Saturday in Ambiste village in Wada taluka, he said.
(with PTI inputs)
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