The Sakinaka police and Special Task Force which are being monitored by an ACP’s team have found that the 32-year-old victim and the accused in her rape and murder knew each other for the past few months. Police said the murder was the result of a monetary dispute between them.

On Monday, Hemant Nagrale, commissioner of Mumbai police, addressing the media said that they have added sections of the ST/SC Atrocities Act in the case. Police have also recovered the murder weapon which the accused Mohan Chauhan used to stab and kill the woman.