05 December,2019 03:17 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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A body of a man with his limbs tied was found in Chembur on Tuesday, just a day after the Mahim police found chopped human body parts stuffed in a suitcase.
A caller alerted officials of RCF police station about the body which was lying at the Bhimwadi area near the railway tracks, which are used by goods trains, a Times of India report read.
Police said the deceased should be around 45 years of age and his body was found in a decomposed state. The report added that the man may have died over three days ago and his body was found amid greenery owing to which it may have gone unnoticed.
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"The man's legs were tied with a t-shirt and his face covered with a sack and plastic sheet," Sopan Nighot, senior police inspector, was quoted as saying in the report.
In another incident on Monday, a bag containing a man's body parts was recovered from the beach behind Mahim dargah. The local cops are trying to scan last 10-days' footages of the CCTVs on the Bandra-Worli Sea Link to find out from where the bag was thrown into the sea.
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