Date:29/06/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/06/29/stories/2008062959820800.htm

National

Meghana’s death: Goa police register murder case

Special Correspondent

PANAJI: The Calangute police on Saturday registered a case of murder in connection with the death of the Bangalore-based software engineer Meghana Subhedar (28).

She was found dead in a semi-nude condition on the Candolim-Calangute beach in north Goa on Thursday morning.

This followed a statement by her father to the police on Friday, expressing a suspicion that she was murdered. She went missing from Mumbai on April 11.

PTI reports:

“We have registered a case under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code [murder],” north Goa Superintendent of Police Bosco George said.

“The post-mortem report does not suggest any cause of death as the body was highly decomposed. There are bruise marks on certain parts of the body.”

The software engineer was on her way to Korba (Chhattisgarh) and was supposed to have taken a train at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus.