Navi Mumbai: Man slams four-year-old son to ground, killing him

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Horrific CCTV footage surfaced on Tuesday showing a man slamming a four-year-old child to the ground multiple times at Sanpada railway station. The child succumbed to head injuries from the brutal attack the next day.

Shockingly, the attacker is the child's own father. The CCTV footage recovered by GRP shows that he slammed the boy to the ground four to five times. The mother can be seen struggling to rescue the child. "As soon as we were informed, a team rushed to the platform and took the child to hospital but he succumbed after a few hours," a GRP officer said.

The incident occurred on Monday around 8 am. The GRP has arrested the 23-year-old man identified as Sakal Singh and charged him with murder. The police found that the accused is a beggar and used to live under the bridge at Sanpada. He has two wives, one 21 and the other, 18. The child, Prashant, was from his first wife. GRP said Singh was arguing with his wife over her lack of earnings from begging.

"He got very angry and assaulted his son," an officer said.