Dahisar police is investigating the murder of a 25-year-old woman after her body was found in Gurukrupa Chawl in suspicious circumstances and the postmortem revealed she had been strangulated.
Dahisar police is investigating the murder of a 25-year-old woman after her body was found in Gurukrupa Chawl in suspicious circumstances and the postmortem revealed she had been strangulated.
The body of Parvin Sheikh was found by the police on Thursday. After initially registering a case of Accidental Death Report (ADR), the police registered a case under Section 302 (murder) against unknown persons after the postmortem report revealed the cause of the death to be strangulation.
Th police is also on the lookout for a man and a woman with whom members of the local community said the lady had been staying. The duo is on the run and search is on to locate them.
The police said Sheikh, who, according to some sources, was a bar dancer, had been living in the chawl for the past six months on rent. While Sheikh was identified after the recovery of her Aadhaar card, the address given in the card — placing Sheikh in Ulhasnagar — has been found to be fake. The police is also trying to trace the origins of the deceased.
According to a senior official from Dahisar police station, the police team had rushed to the chawl on Thursday following a tip off. On reaching the spot, they found the house locked from the inside and the body lying on the floor.
A noose made from a dupatta was hanging from a fan. The woman was taken to Shatabdi Hospital, where doctors declared her dead. Following this, the police had registered an ADR.
