Chilling murder in Navi Mumbai: 20-year-old woman stabbed to death; body found on road | Navi Mumbai News

NAVI MUMBAI: A 20-year-old woman, a Uran resident, whose missing complaint was lodged by her father late Thursday evening, has been found murdered on the isolated road near a petrol pump at Kotnaka in Uran taluka on Friday late night. The victim, identified as Yashashri Shinde, was found lying in a pool of blood due to multiple stabbing injuries on her waist and back.
Rajendra Kote, senior inspector of Uran, said that the murder victim Yashashri Shinde was a commerce graduate and was working at a private company as a data entry operator. On Thursday morning, she had left home by informing her parents that she was going to her friend’s house. As she did not return home till late night, her father lodged her missing complaint.
On Friday night, a police officer of the detection branch at Uran police station received a call informing that a girl was lying in a pool of blood on the road at Kotnaka and stray dogs were nibbling her body. A police team found the girl’s face was disfigured due to nibbling by stray dogs, who had even eaten her shoulder flesh. There were three stab injuries on her waist and back. He said, “As a missing complaint of Yashashri Shinde was lodged, her parents were summoned and they identified her from her clothes and a tattoo on her waist. While the victim girl’s parents have named a suspect identified as Dawood Shaikh, prima facie, we have registered a case of murder against an unidentified accused. The suspect hails from Karnataka. As he has switched off his mobile, he is untraceable.”
Inspector Kote said, “The victim girl’s parents have alleged that Shaikh murdered their daughter as she had registered an FIR of molestation and Pocso against Shaikh in the year 2019, after which he was arrested by Uran police and sent to jail.