The father of the 22-year-old MBBS student was just 3 kms away from the spot at Bandra Bandstand from where the woman went missing in the intervening night of November 29 and 30, 2021. The father, after learning that his daughter did not appear for her exam at her college, approached the Boisar police in the evening and found out that she was last spotted in Bandra. He, along with two cops, left for Bandra immediately. He claimed that had the cops acted promptly, she would have been traced by 2.24 am, the time when she took a photo with the main arrested accused in the case.

The student’s father told mid-day, “After learning that the last location of her phone was in Bandra around 1.40 pm, I, along with two cops from Boisar police station, went to Bandra around 11 pm on November 29. We looked for her near the high-rise she was last traced to, but did not get any leads.” The location where the father searched for her is around 2.6 km away from the spot where the student took the photo.