Teen’s body found on Versova Beach

MUMBAI: The body of a 19-yearold girl, stuffed in a sack with her hands and legs tied, washed ashore Versova Beach on Thursday around 5.30pm. The girl was found dead two days after her parents registered a missing case at Goregaon police station.

The body was decomposed and the victim appeared to be strangled to death with a wire, said cops. A case under sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for 201 (disappearance of evidence) and 302 (murder) against an unknown person. The officers investigating the missing case said that the girl had not returned from her tuition classes till late at night after which, her parents approached the police. The girl was preparing for the medical entrance exam after passing her junior college.

The teen’s parents were called to the morgue where they identified the body, said a Versova police officer.

The victim stayed in a chawl in Goregaon (west) along with her parents and siblings. Her father is a taxi driver. “On investigation, we learnt that the girl had gone to her friend’s house and skipped the tuition classes. She had left her friend’s house at 9pm, telling her friend that she was going home, however, at 11pm when her parents called her, the phone was switched off,” said Siraj Inamdar, senior police inspector of Versova police station. The body was found floating on the beach near Barista Lane. Inamdar informed, “We are waiting for the autopsy report to find out whether the girl was sexually assaulted before her murder and getting the her call records to find out who she spoke to or whether she had a boyfriend.”

The police is now investigating the people who had met the girl on the day she went missing.