A passerby spotted the body of a man in his 50s in the river in the afternoon and alerted the police
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The decomposed body of a man was fished out from Mithi river in Dharavi area here on Tuesday, police said.
A passerby spotted the body of a man in his 50s in the river in the afternoon and alerted the police, an official from Dharavi police station said.
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The body was fished out and sent to Sion Hospital for post-mortem, he said, adding that there were no injury marks on the body.
The police were verifying missing persons' complaints registered in the nearby police stations to establish the deceased man's identity, the official said.
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