Mumbai: Six people, including three women, were arrested by the Versova Police in connection with the case in which a dead body in a gunny bag washed ashore at a beach earlier this month. Crime Branch handed over five of the accused to the Versova Police.A body had been found in a gunny bag at Devachiwadi on the beach on Oct 1. Police formed six teams to identify the deceased person and find his killers. The deceased person had some tattoos on his body. He was identified as Basantlal Kori, a worker at a vegetable shop in Malad West. The shop was owned by Santosh Mishra. But Mishra was nowhere to be found. Other employees from the shop had also vanished.Police teams were sent to Uttar Pradesh, where they tracked down one of the prime accused, Juagraj Yadav (59). Police said Yadav and Kori had had a dispute in the past. Yadav wanted to teach him a lesson and injured him in the head. After Kori’s death, Yadav and the other accused had wrapped the body in a gunny bag and thrown it into the sea at Malad. The body washed ashore at Versova.Unit 9 of the crime branch arrested five other accused — Santosh Mishra (65), Mira Mishra (56), Shivam Mishra (27), Anju Mishra (34), and Vandana Mishra (29).
