India, June 3 -- A seven-year-old girl was severely injured after an iron rod fell on her from the eighth floor of an under-construction building in Malad on Sunday. The police booked the builder on Monday for not taking required safety measures at the construction site.

According to the police, the incident occurred at an under-construction slum redevelopment (SRA) building in Laxman Nagar in Malad East. The girl, Ishanvi Manjalkar, was a resident of Shivprasad chawl near the building. The police said that on Sunday afternoon, Manjalkar was playing with her friends near the construction site when an iron rod slipped from a worker's hands on the eighth floor and fell on the girl's shoulder. She was severely injured and rushed to Dr Babas...