The Mumbai Crime Branch has given approval to a private company that supplies divers, to conduct a hydrographic survey, to locate the MBBS student’s body from the Arabian Sea at Bandstand at Bandra. The hydrographic survey will detect the mortal remains in the seabed. Hydrographic surveys, during which machinery is used to map the area and take images of the seabed, cost around Rs 15 lakh.

There was hope that satellite images could help the police find the exact location of the MBBS student’s body and the accused, Mithu Singh’s last location on Bandstand, but the EOS Data Analysis centre, a California-based company, refused to give the data citing security reasons. Now the Crime branch will seek the home ministry’s permission to get the satellite images and this will take at least three-four months.