More than four days after 42-year-old Pancharam Rithadia committed suicide, his relatives have refused to claim his body from the morgue at Sion Hospital as a mark of protest against the delay in finding his 17-year-old daughter Aarti who went missing seven months ago. The family members claimed that despite registering a case of kidnapping, Nehru Nagar police have not made any arrests or found Aarti yet.

Rithadia, a Chembur resident, committed suicide at around 8 pm on October 13 by jumping in front of a running train at Wadala railway station. His nephew, Rajendra Rithadia said, "Even though a missing case was filed, the police took the culprit in custody and let him go. My uncle has named the five culprits in his suicide note and the Wadala police have now filed a case against them. We have no option but to not claim the body until something is done about this."