India, March 23 -- A four-year-old boy who went missing overnight was found dead by his family in Kandivali West on Saturday. The Kandivali police have started an investigation into the death and preliminary findings indicate the role of the deceased child's stepfather's friend. The police suspect the child was strangled, and registered a case of kidnapping and murder.

The boy stayed with his family in Kandivali East. Police said his mother had divorced her first husband four years ago and remarried in 2022. The deceased four-year-old was from her first marriage, and she had a two-year-old with her second husband. His mother took him to visit his grandmother on Friday, who was unwell and stayed on a footpath in Kandivali West. She told t...