A 28-year-old woman who went missing from Mumbai on April 10 this year was found dead in Goa on Thursday evening. The body of Meghna Subedar, a software engineer working in Bangalore, was found in a nude and decomposed state at Goa’s Candolim beach. The body has been sent for a post mortem by the Calangute police who are investigating whether the case is one of accidental death or murder.“Subedar’s body, which has been identified by her father, was found at Candolim beach on Thursday evening. The body was found in a nude and decomposed state. We are probing whether there is any foul play involved in the case, and the post mortem report is awaited. Subedar may have died as long as eight days ago,” said Police Inspector Tushar Vernekar of the Calangute police station.On April 14, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway police station in Mumbai registered a missing-person complaint lodged by Meghna’s father Dr Mohan Subedar, who runs a clinic at Korba in Chhattisgarh. He stated that his daughter had gone missing four days prior to that and that she had come to Mumbai from Bangalore to catch a train to Korba.“Meghna Subedar’s father lodged a missing person complaint with us. He said that on the evening of April 10, she had called her parents saying that she had landed in Mumbai and would board the Geetanjali Express for Chhattisgarh in a short while. However, when she did not reach home, he decided to approach us. During investigations, we found that she made the call from somewhere in Andheri,” said Senior Police Inspector Shashank Shinde of the CST Railway Police station.According to the CST railway police, team from the city had been sent to Goa on two occasions to trace Meghna, who had recently divorced her husband who resides in Nagpur.“A team was sent once when we traced an ATM transaction made by her in Goa. She had withdrawn Rs 5,000 from an ICICI Bank ATM, and our team also got a CCTV image of her withdrawing the money. The next time we sent a team was when her mobile phone was traced to Goa. It had been switched off since she had gone missing, but as soon as it was switched on again we traced it to a man in Goa. This man claimed that his friend’s son, a small boy, had discovered the phone at Calangute beach. The boy handed the phone to his father who gave it to his friend, who in turn put a SIM card in. Since the phone was under surveillance, we immediately traced it and recorded the statements of all concerned,” said Shinde.The Calangute police have also learnt that Meghna had withdrawn money from a State Bank of India Automatic Teller Machine in the Margao area of Goa recently. “The exact amount of money she had withdrawn is being probed,” said Vernekar.
