Missing six-year-old girl found dead in chawl in Thane district; murder case registered 

The body of a six-year-old girl, reported missing from her home, was found concealed in a plastic storage drum in a room of a chawl in Bhiwandi town of Maharashtra's Thane district.

Thane: The body of a six-year-old girl, reported missing from her home, was found concealed in a plastic storage drum in a room of a chawl in Bhiwandi town of Maharashtra’s Thane district, police said on Saturday.

The police on Friday recovered the girl’s body from a chawl in the Dhapsipada area of the town, following which a case of murder was registered against unidentified persons, an official said.

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The girl’s parents, who are factory workers, reported her missing from their house in the locality on September 13 and lodged a complaint of kidnapping with the police, he said.

When a police team was searching for the missing child on Friday, they received information about a foul smell emanating from a house in the locality, the official said.

The child’s body was found packed in a plastic drum in a closed room of a chawl in the locality, he said, adding that the body has been sent for post-mortem to JJ Hospital in neighbouring Mumbai.

A case under sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) of the Indian Penal Code and further probe is underway to nab the accused, the official said.