India, Dec. 5 -- Noida

Police on Thursday arrested a 22-year-old man on charges of attempt to murder after he threw his partner's children, a 2.5-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl, into a 10-foot-deep drain near a high-rise in Noida Sector 137 on Tuesday night in a bid to kill them. The children were rescued safely by passersby and are in the Child Welfare Committee's shelter, along with their mother.

Police said the accused, Ashish Singh, of Ghatampur in Kanpur, was in a relationship with his cousin's wife for over a year and both of them were thrown out by the family after they found out about it. The two of them moved to Noida around 20 days ago, and they rented an accommodation in Shahdara village.

"Ashish was pressurising the wom...