Elderly woman's decomposed body found in Mumbai's Lalbhaug, daughter held for questioning: Police

The decomposed cadaver of an elderly woman was found in a plastic bag in Mumbai Lalbhaug area and the police have detained her daughter for questioning, the Mumbai Police said on Wednesday.

According to an official statement, the body of the 53-year-old woman was found in a plastic bag which had been kept inside a closet for months, adding that the deceased woman’s 22-year-old daughter has been held by the police for questioning and the body has been sent for postmortem to ascertain the cause of death.

As per the police statement, the deceased woman’s brother and nephew lodged a missing report at the Kalachowki police station on Tuesday, following which the police searched the Lalbhaugh woman’s first floor apartment where they found her decomposing corpse inside a plastic bag in a closet.

An official said the woman’s daughter has been taken into custody and is being interrogated, adding that a case has been registered and further investigation is ongoing.

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In a related incident, on Monday, the body of an unidentified woman was found dumped inside a plastic drum, the third of its kind in three months at a railway station in Bengaluru, police had said.

According to an official, a drum covered with clothes and with its lid tightly shut, was found near one of the entry gates of the Baiyappanahalli railway station in Bengaluru between 10 am to 11 am on Monday morning.

He said that upon receiving information, a police team arrived at the spot and found the body of a woman, aged around 31 to 35 years, inside the plastic container.

Reports said that RPF personnel at the Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal, where container was dumped, found foul smell emanating from the plastic drum next to an automatic sliding door and informed the Baiyappanahalli police.

The incident is the third of its kind in three months at a Bengaluru railway station. On January 4 this year, the decomposing body of a woman in her late 20s was found in a plastic drum by cleaning staff at the Yesvantpur railway station.

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