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Mumbai: A 12-year-old boy was brutally attacked by a man inside a residential building lift in Maharashtra's Thane district, where the child was slapped multiple times and bitten on the hand in an unprovoked assault.

The incident took place on July 4 around 5:00 p.m. in a building in Ambernath East, as the boy was heading to his tuition class from his 14th-floor apartment.

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The accused, identified as Kailash Thawani, allegedly became furious when the boy did not hold the lift doors open for him on the 9th floor. Moments later, CCTV footage, now widely circulated on social media, shows Thawani entering the lift and violently assaulting the child.

The footage shows Thawani repeatedly slapping the child, seizing and pinning his hands, and even biting him on the hand. He also made threatening remarks directed at the boy, saying, "I will stab you outside."

The assault continued into the building lobby, even after a housekeeping staff member attempted to intervene.

Amid public outrage and pressure from the child's family, an FIR was finally registered four days after the incident occurred.

"I was coming from the lift, and it stopped at the ninth floor. There was nobody outside, so I closed the lift. Uncle entered the lift, he didn't say anything and just started beating me. When I asked him why he was beating me, he bit me and said, 'Tu mujhe bahar mil, main tujhe chaaku se maardunga' (Meet me outside and I'll stab you with a knife). I pushed him away when he bit me," India Today quoted the boy as saying.

"My son was going to his classes. When he came from the 14th to the ninth floor, his friend's father entered the lift and started beating my son. He beat him till the lift reached the ground floor, and the thrashing continued till the lobby. The watchman tried to intervene. My son is barely 12–13 years old, and this man threatened to stab him," the victim's father told India Today.

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The child's father also accused the police of inaction, alleging that the accused was being shielded from accountability.