Indian man arrested and charged over death of toddler

Natasha Chaku
Melbourne, Mar 7 (PTI) A 23-year-old part-time Indian
taxi driver, who kept a three-year-old Indian boy unconscious
in the boot of his car and drove around for three hours before
dumping him in a field, was Sunday arrested and charged over
the death of the toddler.

Sources told PTI that the wife of Dhillon Gursewak,
who has been arrested, is likely to be charged for helping her
husband in disposing off the toddler's body.

Gursewak, who lived in the same house as the three-old
boy Gurshan Singh Channa and his parents from Punjab, has been
charged with manslaughter due to criminal negligence and
appeared in an out-of-sessions hearing at St Kilda Road police
complex today, local media reports said.

Police said Gursewak was not a relative of the toddler
though they lived in the same house.
Gursewak "placed the child in the boot of his car
unconscious but still alive", Ron Iddles, Senior Sergeant of
the homicide squad, was quoted as saying by the Australian
Associated Press (AAP). Iddles, however, did not say how the
three-year-old boy became unconscious.
"He (Gursewak) then drove up to at least three hours
with the child in the boot of the car, eventually stopping at
Oaklands Junction, where he placed the child from the boot
into the grass and did not check to see if the child was
alive, then returned to 28, David Street, Lalor," Iddles said.
Gursewak was refused bail and will reappear in the
Melbourne Magistrate's Court on Tuesday. (MORE) PTI NC
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