Updated On: 23 January, 2023 07:22 AM IST | Mumbai | Diwakar Sharma
Grieving father of MBBS student who was allegedly murdered in Bandra wants police to investigate her WhatsApp chats; seeks CM, Dy CM’s intervention

Mumbai Crime Branch Unit 09 officers oversee a search operation for the MBBS student’s body, at Bandra Bandstand, on Saturday. Pic/Ashish Raje
The Mumbai Crime Branch Unit 09 has failed to retrieve the WhatsApp chat history of my daughter, which could play a crucial role in cracking the case,” said the father of the MBBS student who went missing on November 29, 2021. The cops have claimed that the student was killed and her body was dumped near Bandra Bandstand by two arrested accused. Apart from seeking the chat history of the last 15 days prior to her disappearance, the woman’s father also said that some of the students’ friends had approached Nagpada police station to file a missing complaint, but were turned away.
Citing that neither her body nor her belongings have been found yet, the father claimed that the Mumbai police are claiming to have solved the case to hush up the matter. “Forget her body, the cops have not even recovered a single piece of her belongings including her cellphone. Why are the cops in a hurry to paint it as a murder case when they have no evidence till now? The Mumbai police have been trying to hush up the matter instead of focussing on solving the case. I have been asking them to get the WhatsApp chat history since the beginning, but they did not pay heed to my suggestion. The entire investigation is botched up, and yet the chief minister and home minister have not bothered to say anything,” he told mid-day.