Officials of the Crime Branch (CB) Unit V had to seek help of personnel from the Nirmal Nagar police station after the suspects they had gone to interrogate assaulted them on Tuesday evening. The CB officials had recovered a man’s body from Raheja Bridge in Mahim on Monday. Based on investigation carried out on Tuesday, the deceased was identified as 22-year-old Sheikh Asif Sheikh Rabibul, a resident of Bandra (East).

It was Rabibul’s brother who identified the body. He said the deceased had come to Mumbai a few years ago from Kolkata and was working at a garment factory in Shahunagar, Mahim. Further investigations revealed that the Nirmal Nagar police had arrested Rabibul in October 2013 for molesting a minor girl.