As reported in TOI by S Ahmed Ali, TNN, 10 January 2010,
A 14-year old girl was raped and her body dumped in a Mhada Colony at Vashinaka in Chembur on Saturday. The police suspect the involvement of a few boys from the same building or locality.
According to the police, the victim stepped out of her house around 10 am on Friday to buy shampoo from a nearby grocery store. “When she did not return for 45 minutes, her brother got worried and informed their mother, who rushed back home from work and began searching for her daughter,” said assistant commissioner of police Jalinder Kandagle. “Around 4 pm, the family filed a missing complaint with the RCF police station.”
On Saturday, the girl’s family found a gunny bag dumped inside a vacant flat on the ground floor of their building. They opened the bag and found the girl’s body. The victim’s mouth was covered with a piece of cloth and her hands were tied. The police found strangulation marks on her neck and blood stains on her private parts, indicating that she was raped. The body has been sent for a post-mortem.
Teen found murdered in Mumbai, her body stuffed in gunny bag -
Excerpt from DNA, reported by Dayanand Kamath , January 10: Read Full Article
The body of a 14-year-old girl, who went missing from her Chembur home on Friday morning, was found early on Saturday, stuffed in a gunny bag in a ground floor apartment of the same building she lived in. The victim, Sonali Vasant Bellur, had been murdered, allegedly by unidentified persons. The teenager’s mouth had been gagged with a handkerchief, and her hands were tied behind her back.
Sonali lived with her parents in a fourth floor flat in Pancharatna building (No 12) in MHADA Colony, Vashi Naka, in Chembur. She left her home at around 10am on Friday to buy a shampoo sachet, but never returned. After searching the area, her mother Laxmi, a domestic help, lodged a missing persons complaint the same evening with the RCF Police. Laxmi also informed her brother Arjun Guru, a resident of Ambernath, that Sonali had gone missing and he rushed to Chembur.
