Mumbai: Cops can’t locate body of doctor who jumped off Atal Setu

More than four weeks after a Dadar based doctor died by suicide by jumping from the Navi Mumbai end of the Atal Setu the police are still unable to trace her remains The police have sought the assistance of local fishermen and the fire brigade but have had no luck to date However this is not an isolated case with five bodies having disappeared in the marshy lands of Mumbai in last seven yearsIn the recent case Dr Kinjal Shah 43 jumped off the Atal Setu on March 18 ldquoWe are making relentless efforts but are yet to recover her remains Several teams have been formed by the Navi Mumbai police the coastal police and private entities but these efforts have not yielded any results so farrdquo said Rajendra Kote Patil senior inspector Nhava Sheva policeTook a taxi from Dadar to Atal SetuAccording to the police the Bhoiwada cops had lodged a missing complaint after Shahrsquos father approached them ldquoThe Bhoiwada police checked CCTV footage which showed that she left the house at 130 pm on March 18 Around 145 pm she boarded a taxi from the Shindewadi area in Dadar and went towards Atal Setu Around 14 km away from the Navi Mumbai end on the bridge she stopped the taxi saying she wanted to click pictures She got down and she jumped into the sea The taxi driver then approached the policerdquo said Subhash Borate senior inspector Bhoiwada police station According to the police the spot where Shah allegedly jumped off is an area with mangroves and hence its causing a hindrance in recovering the body ldquoWe have less hopes of recovering the body and it is likely that we would only find her skeletal remainsrdquo said a police officerNot an isolated incidentIn 2021 Mintu Singh a lifeguard by profession killed MMBS student Swadichcha Sane and allegedly dumped her body in the Bandra Bandstand area The Mumbai police carried out four attempts to recover her body but failed to do so ldquoBeing a lifeguard Singh had full knowledge of the sea and we suspect that he deliberately dumped the body at a spot where it couldnt be recoveredrdquo said a police officer The police suspect Singh killed Sane as she refused to get intimate with himDr Kinjal Shah Tarannum Kamruddin Ansari fell into the sea in 2016 while taking selfies Kirti Vyas was killed by her coworkers in 2018 API Ashwini Bindre was murdered in 2016 and her body was dumped into the Vasai CreekIn 2018 Kirti Vyas 28 was allegedly killed and her body was dumped in a drain near Wadala The incident came to light when the police arrested Vyasrsquo coworkers Siddhesh Tamhankar and Khushi Sahjwani after a thorough investigation The duo confessed that they dumped her body in a drain along WadalaMahul Road The police tried to trace Vyasrsquo body in Mumbai and Alibaug but failed to do so According to the police Vyas had warned Tamhankar to improve his performance at work or face termination after which he and Sahjwani murdered the accountantTarannum Kamruddin Ansari 18 a Govandi resident had fallen into the sea while taking selfies with her friends at Bandstand in Bandra in 2016 The cops launched a search operation to recover her body but failed to do so According to the police Mintu Singh confessed to dumping Sanersquos body at the same spot where Ansari had drownedIn 2016 the Navi Mumbai cops launched an operation to recover the body of API Ashwini Bindre who was allegedly murdered by inspector Abhay Kurundhakar his driver Kundan Bhandari and friends Rajesh Patil and Mahesh Palnikar According to the police her body had been dumped into the Vasai Creek In 2018 they tried to recover the trunk containing Bindrersquos body parts from the creek A team of nine divers were involved in the search but they couldnrsquot find anything after a 3hourlong operation According to the police Kurundhakar had killed Bindre who he was allegedly having an affair with after she demanded that he marry herMar 18Day Dr Kinjal Shah died by suicide