Unable to identify the woman whose body was found in a nullah a week ago, the Rabale MIDC police have announced a reward to anyone with information about her.
“We have checked missing person reports from nearby areas and asked residents to identify the woman, but no one could. We urge the public to help us identify the woman. Whoever provides us useful information will be rewarded as per what the superior officers recommend. The identity of the informer will also be kept confidential,” senior police inspector Chandrakant Katkar from the Rabale MIDC police said.
An autorickshaw driver found the body in the nullah on Thane-Belapur road opposite the Siemens office on April 9. The driver had gone into the bushes near the nullah to relieve himself.
On April 10, after the post mortem report revealed the cause of death as strangulation and a head injury, a murder case was registered. The woman is suspected to have been murdered at least two weeks ago as the body was decomposed.
“The woman was 5’3” tall and seemed to be between 30 and 35 years old. She was wearing a green top and black leggings and a necklace of red and white glass beads. She had a tattoo of a flower with six petals on her right hand,” Mr. Katkar said.
In 2017, the severed torso of a woman found in a nullah at Mahape, also under the jurisdiction of the Rabale MIDC police, was identified with the help of a tattoo on the body.
