A toddler, kidnapped while sleeping, was murdered and his body was dumped nearby, in the early hours of Saturday in  Iraniwadi, Kandivli West. The suspect, who was known to the victim’s family, is absconding.

CCTV footage from nearby buildings showed the suspect arriving on a bicycle, taking the child away and returning on foot carrying him on the shoulder as if asleep. Around 3.40 am, he left the child’s body near a barricade on the side of an under-construction road and walks away. The child’s family recognised the suspect from the footage, but found he had fled after switching off his mobile phone. The police have detained his acquaintances for questioning, said an officer.