Anil Chugani, the Colaba resident who threw his childhood buddy's three-year-old daughter from his seventh floor apartment window on Saturday night, may have been an occult practitioner and could have planned to kill the child's twin sister too, top police officers told mid-day. Chugani even coolly called the police control room moments after committing the barbaric act and told them in a calm voice: "I have flung a three-year-old girl out of my window. Arrest me."

The police said Chugani, 43, locked himself inside his bedroom till the police arrived, fearing that neighbours who had gathered outside his house will lynch him. According to the police, at 6:45 pm on Saturday, Chugani went the house of his childhood friend Prem Hathiramani and sought permission to take the latter's three children – Jai, 6, and twins Shreya and Shanaya, 3. Once the children were at his Ashok Apartment home, along with the nanny, Chugani allegedly took Shanaya into the bedroom and locked it from inside. Soon, the Hathiramanis got a call saying Shanaya has fallen off the window and has been rushed to the hospital.