The Santacruz Police found a mark around the neck of the deceased, who has been identified as Nikhil Trilotkar, indicating that he had been strangulated to death. "On Wednesday morning, the police received a call around 10 am informing them that a sack had been found near a college next to the boundary wall of a nullah that had a dead body inside it," an officer from Santacruz police station said.

According to police sources, when they reached there they found the man's head poking out of the sack and it looked like he had been hit with a blunt object on his head.