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Body found in Audi parked on Mum-Goa hwy
THE BODY HAD STARTED TO DECOMPOSE. INJURY MARK FOUND COULD BE A STAB OR BULLET WOUND
NAVI MUMBAI: A body of a 44-year-old businessman was found in an Audi car parked along the Mumbai-Goa highway in Panvel on Friday evening. According to the police, the car was stationed there since Thursday and it was only on Friday that someone noticed a body inside and informed the police. The deceased has been identified as Sanjay Karle from Talegaon, who ran a water supply tanker business.
“According to the locals, they had noticed the car on Thursday night as well, so we are assuming that the body was there for more than a day. The body had started to decompose. Injury mark found on chest could be a stab mark or bullet wound. Details would only emerge after post-mortem and further investigations,” senior police inspector Anil Patil from Panvel Taluka police station said.
police had to break the window of the car to bring out the body on Friday night. The body has been sent for post mora tem to the Panvel Civil Hospital.
Karle, according to Talegaon Police, had criminal cases against him in the past. He was also booked under MCOCA and was released on parole recently.
Karle was also charged for giving fake gold coins and was always on the run since past few days after an FIR was filed against him by Pimpri-ChinchThe wad police for duping people for promising them gold biscuits at cheap rates.
The body was found near Karnala Fort along the Mumbai Goa Highway. Karla was married and had an eight-year-old daughter. The wound on his chest is yet unclear if it is a bullet wound or stab wound.
The windows of the Audi were intact, none of them were shattered.