Overview
- Workers demolishing an unused terrace water tank at Barkulya chawl in Manikpur, Vasai West discovered a skull, bones, and clothing during Sunday’s work.
- Police conducted a panchnama, called in a forensic team, and sent the remains to a laboratory for examination and DNA profiling.
- Manikpur police registered an unnatural-death case, and the MBVV unit recorded an accidental death report as they await forensic findings.
- Officers are checking missing-person records from the past five years, and a tailor’s label on a shirt and trousers could help confirm the identity.
- Initial assessment suggests the remains are likely male, possibly a hawker aged 35 to 40, and investigators are probing both accident and murder angles, including any link to last year’s gas-leak deaths at the same chawl.