The Ahmednagar police almost landed straight into a modern crime investigation series last month as they dug out a five-year-old corpse of an unknown person from his grave. Having run pillar to post for five years, a family in search of their missing kin reached the Loni police station when officers joined the jots to find similarities between the missing person and the buried deceased. The mortal remains have now been sent to the civic-run KEM hospital in Mumbai for DNA analysis to confirm the identity of the person.

According to the Loni police, in 2015, an unknown decomposed body was found in a local water body which was buried later since no one had claimed it. The dentures of the deceased person were however retained for investigation purposes. When the family arrived at the Loni police station, the investigating officer opened up the old file since "there were many similarities of age, height and clothes." The deceased person's age was around 57 years and height of 5.7 feet. "We assumed that it might be the person the family is looking for," said police inspector Pravin Patil.