An eight-month-old boy, identified as Aryan Ansari, fell into a water-filled pit in Nerul on Sunday morning. Aryan was a son of Arif Ansari, who is a balloon seller and his mother Aarti is a rag picker. Aryan was playing in an open plot next to his house in the slums opposite Nerul Gymkhana when the tragedy happened. Though the victim's five-year-old cousin was around supervising him, he could not prevent the accident. The incident took place around 11 am when the cousin sister got distracted by other children and as soon as she turned her attention back to the victim, he was nowhere to be seen.

The family realised that the child had fallen into the pit a couple of hours later. Mumbai Mirror quoted Aryan's uncle, Arbaaz Ansari saying, "It seems like the child’s ball rolled into the pit which was full of rainwater. He may have tried to retrieve his ball and accidentally fallen into the water. We only realised it an hour later when his body floated up to the surface of the pit."