Navi Mumbai: Suicide note leads police to woman’s body

The Navi Mumbai Crime Branchsolved the murder case of a 19yearold girl a firstyear Bachelor of Commerce FYBCOM student almost one month after she went missing The police claimed that her boyfriend killed her and later died by suicide by getting run over by a train The decomposed body of the girl was found in the forest area near Owe camp KhargharThe police were searching for the body of the girl in the forest area with the help of a drone Later a code on the suicide note lsquoLO1501rsquo led the police towards a tree with a similar number and the decomposed body was traced on January 15 which was identified by the family said the policeAccording to the police on December 12 at 10 am the deceased Vaishnavi Manohar Babar 19 left her Kalamboli residence to reach SIES College in SionVaibhav Burungale the accused and Vaishnavi Manohar Babar the deceasedldquoTill late evening as she didnt return home her parents approached the Kalamboli police to file a missing complaint The Navi Mumbai police during the investigation were not able to trace the missing girl Hence on January 6 Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner Milind Bharambe formed a special team to trace the missing girl said a police officerAmit Kale deputy commissioner of police Navi Mumbai Crime Branch said on January 6 a special team comprising officers and staff from the AntiHuman Trafficking Unit AHTU started the investigation The special team examined CCTV footage Vaishnavi was seen returning from college and also boarding a train from GTB Nagar railway station ldquoShe was seen getting down at Kharghar Later it was established that she was accompanied by a boy and went into the forest area near Owe camp But while returning the boy was alone which led to a doubt and further investigationrdquo said a police officerOn further investigation and analysing the girls mobile phone it was found that she was in continuous touch with her friendldquoIt was then discovered that the friend Vaibhav Burungale 24 had died by suicide on December 12 the same day he allegedly killed Vaishnavi by jumping in front of the train near Juinagar railway station ldquoAn accidental death report ADR was registered regarding the same at Vashi Government Railway Police The police found a mobile phone of Vaibhav that had a suicide note in it stating lsquoI am behind the killing of Vaishnavirsquo further giving an address of Owe camp with a code LO1501rdquo said a police officialKale further said his team headed by Atul Aher senior police inspector AHTU along with forest officials searched for the girl in the forest area near Owe camp which is near Pandavkada waterfall ldquoTeams were formed to trace the girl From January 8 to 15 every day from 8 am to 8 pm the operation to trace the missing girl was ongoing When we found the body according to the code mentioned in the suicide note the family members of the victim came and identified the body Then accordingly it was sent for postmortem The body was half in a decomposed state added KaleAher said they have handed over the body to the family members The police during the investigation found that the youths had been in a relationship for the past four years ldquoIt is believed that as they were from different castes marriage was not possible Hence the girl started staying away from him and also blocked him on social media However the accused was also angry that she was talking to another boy after ditching him Hence he took an extreme step and by strangulating her in the forest It is said that the boy did not want her to be with or marry someone elserdquo said a police officer