Teenage Girl's Body Found Near Navi Mumbai’s DPS Flamingo Lake, Police Suspect Murder

Mumbai: The body of a 19-year-old woman was found near a lake in Maharashtra's Navi Mumbai township and a case of murder has been registered, said police. The body was found by a nullah that joins the Flamingo Lake behind DPS school around 4.30 pm on Wednesday.

Some fishermen spotted near a school close to Belapur at around 4.30 pm on Wednesday. After being alerted, police rushed to the spot and fished out the body.

The deceased was identified as Bhavika More, student of a college in Nerul, the official from NRI police station said.

Police suspect that she was killed by her boyfriend who later committed suicide, an official said on Thursday. An initial probe indicated the woman was in love with Swastik Patil (22), hailing from Panvel in Navi Mumbai, he said.

As per the CCTV footage of the area, both of them went towards the lake at around 4 pm but did not return.

They might have had a quarrel following which the man allegedly strangulated the woman to death, dumped the body in the lake and then committed suicide, the official said, adding efforts were on to trace him.

The exact cause of the woman's death will be known after the autopsy report is received, he said.

Based on a complaint lodged by the woman’s relative, the FIR for murder was registered against an unidentified person under section 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nayaya Sanhita past Wednesday midnight, a police official said.

No one has been arrested in the case and a probe was underway, he added.