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The man dumped the body of the toddler inside a garbage bin inside the toilet of Kushinagar Express
AI-generated representative image shows Indian police officers inspecting the lavatory of a train, examining a garbage bin and documenting evidence, reflecting the investigative process following a serious incident. (IMAGE: IMAGEN 4/NEWS18)
Surat Police arrested a man from Mumbai for allegedly killing his maternal aunt’s three-year-old son and dumping the body in a Uttar Pradesh-bound train’s toilet.
The infant’s body was found last week in a garbage bin kept inside the toilet of Kushinagar Express (22537) train that runs daily between Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh and the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) in Mumbai in the early hours of August 23, according to a report by news agency PTI.
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The train’s cleaning staff had stumbled upon the body after the train arrived at the LTT, the Mumbai police earlier said.
Surat police in a press release added that the accused Vikas Kumar Shah (30), admitted that he kidnapped and killed his maternal aunt’s son out of grudge because she used to constantly nag him about finding some work as he was jobless, a release issued by the Surat police said.
On August 21, the woman living in Ganeshpura area of Surat city approached Amroli police station with a complaint that her elder sister’s son Vikas Shah had kidnapped her three-year-old-son.
The police said that during the probe it found a CCTV footage where Shah, a native of Bihar, was seen boarding a Mumbai-bound train with the boy. On August 23, the minor’s body was found in the toilet of a train at the LTT while Shah was still missing.
Based on technical surveillance of his mobile phone, he was found present in Bandra, Kurla and Dadar areas in Mumbai. Police formed various teams and started searching for the accused after taking mopeds on rent, it said.
On Monday evening, he was finally arrested from a place in Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) and was here on Tuesday.
According to the police, Shah is a native of Siwan district of Bihar and worked as labourer in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait before returning to his native place in April 2025. Since he was jobless, he came to Surat along with his mother nearly 15 days ago in search of work and started living at his aunt’s place in Amroli.
But since he was not doing any work, his aunt started nagging him to find some job and asked him to shift elsewhere. Fed up with this constant taunting, Shah kidnapped her son and killed him using a sharp weapon before dumping his body on board the express train, the Surat police said.
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Shankhyaneel Sarkar is a senior subeditor at News18. He covers international affairs, where he focuses on breaking news to in-depth analyses. He has over five years of experience during which he has covered sev… Read More
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