While the Mumbai Police spent the past few days in a frenzied search for forensic evidence in the 2012 Sheena Bora murder, it was eventually thanks to a Police Patil in Pen that they managed to recover skeletal remains — suspected to be Sheena’s — from the crime scene yesterday.

The team of police, forensic experts and local villagers started digging at the crime scene around 6 am yesterday, but met with little success until Police Patil Ganesh Dhene remembered the exact spot where the body had been buried. It was eventually recovered around noon. Pics/Datta Kumbhar