Police clueless about dead body

NAVI MUMBAI: Unable to identify the deceased woman found behind Inorbit Mall on Monday, Vashi police will seek help from churches as she had a tattoo of a cross. The post-mortem report could not confirm sexual abuse due to the decomposed state.

“The deceased had a cross tattoo with a heart on her wrist. Assuming that she followed Christianity, we plan to approach churches to spread the word about the body found with one wrist having a tattoo of a queen’s crown and the other a heart with a cross. The postmortem report could not yield much result as the body was completely decomposed. The doctor could only confirm that the body belonged to a woman,” an officer said.

The two teams assigned for the investigations are still trying to identify the woman who is suspected to be in her early 30s by cross checking the various missing complaints in Thane, Mumbai, Raigad and here.

“We have got the CCTV footage of five days from the day we found the body, from the cameras installed at the mall,” the officer added. The body was found in a brown coloured gunny bag that doesn’t have any stamp on it.

Meanwhile, on May 21, a body suspected to be of a girl aged between 15 years and 18 years, was found in a decomposed state in a three-foot long steel drum off Palm Beach Road in Nerul. There has still not been any breakthrough in this. “Prima facie, there does not seem to be a relation between both the cases,” a police officer from Vashi said.