29 January,2019 05:15 PM IST | Mumbai | Suraj Ojha
Police with the body. Pic/Rajesh Gupta
The dead body of a naked man was found in the jurisdiction of Navghar police station on Monday. According to the police, they had received a call from one Dilip Pawar, a lab assistant at a college, who told them that he had spotted the body lying near a crematorium.
The local police and Crime Branch officials shifted the body to Rajawadi hospital for post mortem. Police found the face was burnt with chemicals, there was a hole on the left side of the chest and cuts on the neck. An officer said, "We have registered an FIR against unknown accused under Section 302 of IPC and are investigating the case."
In a similar case, The Bandra Police recently cracked a case of a naked body found at Mahim causeway on January 4. The accused had unnatural sex with the deceased and later bludgeoned him to death him in fear that he might reveal the incident to others. Read full story
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