The teams of Uttarakhand police and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) which were deployed to recover the body of missing Delhi-based teacher, have fished out a decomposed female body from river Yamuna on Thursday. The recovered body is highly decomposed and the cousin sister of the deceased failed to identify it due to the bad shape it was in but the police are almost sure that the body is of Moumita Das.
The Circle Officer (CO) of Uttarkashi, MS Rawat told The Pioneer that the body was recovered from Yamuna River near Damta village by a joint team of police and SDRF. He said that the brother of the victim is arriving in Uttarkashi on Friday for identification of the body. Rawat said that on the clue provided by the culprits that they have thrown the body of Moumita Das in river Yamuna from a bridge in lakhamandal the police teams conducted a massive search operation. The place from where the body was fished out is about 20 km downstream from the place where her body was thrown. The police are also seeking the help of forensic experts in the case.
Delhi residents Moumita Das (27) and her boyfriend Abhijeet Das had arrived in Chakrarta town on October 22 and booked a private taxi on October 23. Moumita was a teacher of fine arts in a school while Abhijeet was a painter by profession. The couple was untraceable after that and the worried parents of the couple had lodged a missing report with Delhi Police.
Police arrested the driver of private taxi Raju on November 11 and on interrogation he accepted that he along with his accomplices Bobby, Kundan and Guddu, killed the duo for money. Police identified Abhijeet as the unidentified body which was found in Purola on October 30.