Mumbai Woman's Decomposed Body Found In Plastic Bag, Daughter Taken Into Custody

New Delhi: The body of a 53-year-old lady was found inside a plastic bag in Mumbai's Lalbhaug area on Wednesday, police said, adding that the body had been hidden in a closet for months. The woman's 22-year-old daughter has been detained for questioning.

The deceased woman's brother and nephew filed a missing persons report at Kalachowki police station on Tuesday, according to DCP Pravin Mundhe. The woman's decomposing body was found inside a plastic bag while inspecting the first-floor apartment.

Mumbai | The decomposed body of a 53-year-old woman was found in a plastic bag in Lalbhaug area. The 22-year-old daughter of the deceased woman was taken into custody by the police for questioning. Police took the body into custody and sent it for postmortem: DCP Pravin Mundhe pic.twitter.com/2AlVS225XV — ANI (@ANI) March 15, 2023

The woman's daughter has been detained and is being questioned by police. The cause of death, in this case, has yet to be determined, and the woman's body has been submitted for a post-mortem examination.

"The decomposed body of a 53-year-old woman was found in a plastic bag in the Lalbhaug area. The 22-year-old daughter of the deceased woman was taken into custody for questioning," said DCP Pravin Mundhe.  The body was taken into custody by police and sent for a post-mortem, and an investigation is underway.

In the previous several months, there have been numerous reports of murder victims' bodies being discovered in their houses. In the Shraddha Walkar murder case, 28-year-old Aaftab Poonawala allegedly murdered his live-in partner and kept parts of her body in a refrigerator he bought for the purpose before dumping them, one by one, around the Mehrauli forest in Delhi.