Sane, a third year MBBS student, had gone missing from Bandra Bandstand in November 2021. The Mumbai crime branch, which is investigating the case, had recently arrested Mithu Singh, a lifeguard, in this connection.
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The Mumbai Police along with the Indian Navy on Friday conducted a search operation at the Bandra Bandstand shore in the city to locate the remains of MBBS student Sadichha Sane after the accused revealed that he had killed her and thrown her body into the Arabian sea, an official said.
Sane, a third year MBBS student, had gone missing from Bandra Bandstand in November 2021. The Mumbai crime branch, which is investigating the case, had recently arrested Mithu Singh, a lifeguard, in this connection.
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“During his interrogation, the accused told the police that he had killed Sane and dumped her body near the Bandstand,” the official said.
After this revelation, the Mumbai crime branch team and Indian Navy divers on Friday conducted a search operation in the Bandstand area for several hours to locate Sadichha Sane’s remains, he said. “The search operation started in the morning,” the official said, adding the investigators were also using other mechanisms to trace Sane’s body.
Police are probing the motive behind Sane’s killing, he added.
Sane, a resident of Boisar, had left her house on November 29 morning to appear for her third MBBS prelims at Grant Government Medical College. Police said she boarded the 9.58 am local from Virar station and got off at Andheri station to board a fast train. She had called her brother Sanskar and said she would call again at 5.30 pm and until then her phone would be switched off. However, when she did not return home till late in the night, her family got worried and started looking for her. They, then, filed a missing person report at the Boisar police station.
According to the crime branch unit 9 officers, Sane got off a fast train at Bandra station and took a taxi to Bandstand. The police checked the CCTV footage of all roads leading to Bandstand. While there is evidence that she went to Bandstand, nothing has been found related to her return.
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