Minor girl’s body found in dumpster in Mumbai

“A cloth was tied tightly around the victim’s neck. Death seems to have been due to strangulation,” said DCP (Zone VI) Sangramsinh Nishandar.

The Shivaji Nagar police have registered an FIR of kidnapping, murder and rape against unknown persons. Police said the section for kidnapping was included in the FIR as the victim was a minor, and that the section for rape had been included as the motive behind her abduction and murder ‘seems to have been sexual in nature’.

“The victim was only clad in her top, and was wearing nothing from the waist downwards, which had led us to suspect sexual assault, which could be the motive behind her killing,” said Nishandar.

The police have sent the body to Rajawadi Hospital in Ghatkopar and are awaiting the post-mortem report, which will confirm or eliminate the possibility of sexual assault.

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