Mumbai: Man kills 19-year-old ex lover, then dies by suicide

Mumbai: A woman had been missing for the last 34 days was found murdered in Kharghar area of Navi Mumbai. She was 19-year-old. The police said that the prime investigations revealed that she was killed by her jilted lover who committed suicide by jumping in front of a local train.

According to the information, the man had left a suicide note which was recovered from his mobile phone. After several days of hard work, investigators decoded it, which was the number of a tree marked by forest officials. He said on Wednesday that the code helped police locate the woman’s body.

An official said that the woman was allegedly strangled to death in Kharghar hills by the accused who was angry over her snapping ties with him. The 19-year-old woman left for her college in Sion on December 12 and never returned, following which a missing case was registered at Kalamboli police station.

According to the investigation, the police received a message that Vaibhav Burungale, a resident of Kalmanboli, had committed suicide by jumping in front of a running local train at Juinagar railway station on December 12, following which a case was registered.

The officer said code words like ‘L01-501’ were used in the suicide note, which was decoded by the police to crack the case. This code was the number of the tree marked by the forest department, where Burungale had thrown the woman’s body. Investigation revealed that the woman and Burungale were present in Kharghar Hills area on December 12.

The police took the help of voluntary rescuers from Lonavala and cooperated with the fire brigade, CIDCO and forest department to search for the body of the woman. Drones were also used,” police said in a release. It said the breakthrough came when the woman’s body was seen lying in bushes at a dumping ground in Owe Camp area of ​​Kharghar.

According to the information received by police, the body was identified on the basis of the dress, wrist watch and ID card worn by the woman while going to college. Police said further investigation is underway.