Mumbai Crime: Sketch helps cops identify body found in nullah

Cops suspect the woman was strangled to death. Representation pic

Police in Mankhurd have had to take help of a sketch artist in an effort to establish the identity of a woman whose highly-decomposed body was found from a nullah last month but a matching missing complaint record could not be found anywhere in the city, an officer said on Sunday.

The body of the woman, in her early 20s as per the post mortem report, was found on August 22 but the checking of scores of CCTV clips from the area as well as probe with people in the vicinity drew a blank about her identity, he said.

"We assumed she was not from Mumbai itself and may have been brought to the city and killed. We found bangles and a mangalsutra on her. We think she was strangled to death some 72 hours before her body, which was stuffed inside a large plastic bag, was found in the nullah," the officer said.

He said the help of sketch artist Nitin Yadav, who has helped the police in several high-profile cases, was taken to draw a representation of the woman, so that it can be shown to people and the case, of murder and destruction of evidence, can move forward. He added that the Mankhurd police and Crime Branch are both investigating the case.

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