Mumbai: Step-grandmother stifles child, flings out her body

Mumbai | Tuesday | 1st October, 2019

Summary:

Over three weeks after a three-year-old girl was thrown off the seventh floor of a Colaba building by her father's friend, a two-year-old was hurled from the sixth floor of her Malad building by her step-grandmother. Jiya's mother Saniya said Rukhsana would pinch the girl "to teach her a lesson". Some 20 days later, my husband convinced them to return and requested them not to pick fights," said Saniya. Saniya took her to the doctor and Rukhsana made a an ointment for Jiya, which worsened her condition, police said. On September 28, around 6.30 am, a first-floor resident saw Jiya lying in a pool of blood on the ground floor..