Mumbai, July 1 -- The city police today apprehended a minor boy for allegedly pushing his 15-year-old girlfriend down from the terrace of a 32-storey building in Mumbai's eastern suburb.
Soon after the death on June 24, the boy told the police that the girl, who was a Class 10 student and his former schoolmate, had died by suicide as she was worried about her studies.
Several factors, including his suspicious behaviour, the discovery of the girl's mobile phone a distance away from her body, and a neighbour's testimony, led the police to deduce that he had allegedly pushed her off the building.
Police filed a murder case against him before apprehending him.
The girl and the boy, who had recently passed the Class 10 exams, were known to ...