The Goa police registered a murder case against an unknown person, in the case wherein 28-year old software engineer, Meghna Subedar, had gone missing from Mumbai.
Viscera sent to Bangalore forensic laboratory
The Goa police on Saturday registered a murder case against an unknown person, in the case wherein 28-year old software engineer, Meghna Subedar, in Bangalore, who had gone missing from Mumbai on April 10 this year, was found in a nude and decomposed state at Candolim beach in Goa two days ago.
“We will try and get details of what exactly took place right from the time the victim left from Bangalore.
She had started her journey from Bangalore and had boarded a flight to Mumbai on April 10, a few days later she had left for Goa from Mumbai. Our teams which have already dispatched to Banglore and Mumbai,” police inspector Tushar Vernekar, of Calangute police station, told DNA. He added that the police are yet to establish where Meghna was staying in Goa and with whom she was in contact with there.
The Calangute police on Friday received a preliminary post-mortem report which has not been able specify the exact cause of death. “The post-mortem report is nil and does not mention about the cause of death. Meghna’s viscera will be sent to the Hyderabad Forensic Sciences Laboratory for further examination,” said Vernekar.
Meghna’s body was found at Candolim beach on Thursday evening and was noticed some passerby, who informed the police about it. Her father Dr Mohan Subedar, who runs a clinic in Korba in Chhatisgarh, identified the body.
Meghna may have died as long as eight days before her body was discovered, the Calangute police said.
On April 14, the CST railway police station in Mumbai registered a missing complaint lodged by Meghna’s father. He stated that his daughter had gone missing four days prior to that, and that she had come to Mumbai from Bangalore to catch a train to Korba.
Meghna had called her parents saying that she had landed in Mumbai and would board the Geetanjali Express for Chhatisgarh in a short while. However, when she did not reach home, he decided to approach the police. During investigations by the CST railway police, telephone records revealed that this call had been made from Andheri.
According to the CST railway police, teams from the city had been sent to Goa on two occasions to trace Meghna, who had recently divorced her husband who currently resides in Nagpur. Dr Subehdar lodged a missing complaint on April 14.
Next day, he informed the police that her daughter had withdrawn Rs15000 cash with her ICICI bank credit card. The transactions were traced to an ICICI Bank in Goa, which confirmed that Rs15000 was withdrawn from an ATM in Panaji on April 15. The police got a CCTV image of Meghna.
A railway police team went to Goa and distributed photos and her description. But till Wednesday, there had been no trace of her.Meanwhile, ATS came to know that someone was using Meghna’s cellphone.
Tracking it, they reached Gani Mehboob, a mason at Panaji. They interrogated him, only to find that phone had been changing hands ever since it had been found by a nine-year-old boy on Calangute beach in May.
s_somendra@dnaindia.net
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