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This is an archive article published on September 7, 2009

20-year-old found murdered in Kurla

A 20-year-old girl was found murdered near an under-construction site in Kurla on Saturday evening.

A 20-year-old girl was found murdered near an under-construction site in Kurla on Saturday evening. The body of the girl,Sanjira Mohammed Rustam Sheikh,was spotted by her mother Nazim at their makeshift residence near the site.

According to the Vinoba Bhave Nagar police,who are investigating the case,the girl was hit on her head with a heavy,blunt iron object. The police said that the motive behind the murder is not yet known.

“The girl’s father works as a fitter at the construction site and the family had shifted there around eight months back. Nazim is a housewife and stayed at home with her daughter. However,on Saturday,Nazim went to fetch water around 5.30 pm leaving her daughter behind. When she returned,she found the girl lying on the ground with blood oozing from a wound on her head,” said senior police inspector C Bhosale from the V B Nagar police station.

“While there were no visible injuries on the body except on her head,only the postmortem report will reveal if there were any injuries on her private parts indicating that she might have been raped. We are also investigating if there is any involvment of a jilted lover and are questioning a few suspects,” said police inspector Shashikant Mane.

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