Mumbai: Woman found dead at Aksa beach was killed 3 days ago

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The Mumbai Police ascertained the identity of the woman who was found dead in a sack at Aksa beach on Thursday. The woman has been identified as Nandani Pankaj Rai (22), a resident of Poisar in Kandivli East.

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According to the postmortem report, Rai was murdered three days before the body was found. The police officials said that she died of suffocation. Nandani was missing since December 8 and her father, Sudhir Thakur, had registered a missing person complaint at Samta Nagar police station on December 11.

The body was sent to JJ hospital for postmortem. The primary report suggests that Nandani was killed three days ago. She was found in a sack with a sheet and a pillow. Cops suspect that the same pillow was used to kill her.

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Nandani married Pankaj three years ago. Since then she had been staying in Poisar with her husband and father-in-law. Her husband works in a dry fruit shop in Kandivli West, while her father-in-law supplies dhokla to various shops in the city.

Police said her husband went to their native village in the beginning of December. Since then she was staying at home with her father-in-law.

The cops are also trying to find out where Nandani was between December 8 and December 21. The investigating team is questioning her father-in-law, and a couple of other people.

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