Palghar: Toddler crushed to death by car at housing complex in Virar

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A two-and-a-half-year-old boy was crushed to death by a car in a housing complex in Maharashtra's Palghar district, police told news agency PTI on Saturday.

The incident took place in Virar town of the district late on Thursday night, an official told PTI.

Manish Dhakal, the son of a security guard in the building, was playing on the premises when a resident was taking his car out. The vehicle ran over the toddler and killed him on the spot, the official told PTI.

A case under sections 304(a) (death by rash or negligent act), 279 (rash driving) and other relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Motor Vehicles Act has been registered, the official told PTI, adding that no arrest has been made in this regard so far.

Meanwhile, a 56-year-old man allegedly shot dead his wife, but soon afterwards collapsed and died, apparently due to a heart attack, at their residence in Thane city of Maharashtra, police told PTI on Saturday.

The incident occurred around 10.15 pm on Friday in Yashwant Nivas building located in Kumbhar Ali of Kalwa, they said.

The victims were identified as Dileep Salvi and his 51-year-old wife Pramila, the police told PTI.

A police official told PTI, "Soon after Salvi returned home on Friday night, an altercation broke out between him and his wife. In a fit of rage, he took out his revolver and fired two rounds at his wife, who died on the spot."

Soon afterwards, Salvi collapsed on the ground and died after apparently suffering a heart attack, he said.

Sources close to Salvi told PTI when the latter pointed his revolver at his wife, she raised an alarm and called her son, but before he could arrive at the spot she was dead.

The exact motive behind the killing is being ascertained by the police, the official told PTI.

According to police, Salvi belonged to an influential family in Kalwa as its members are known to be involved in local politics and social activities. A number of civic and other projects are named after his father late Yashwant Rama Salvi, reported PTI.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone I) Ganesh Gawade visited the site after the incident and he is supervising a probe.

The bodies of the couple were sent to a government hospital for post-mortem and an offence is being registered, the police told PTI.

(With inputs from PTI)