The police have identified the body that was found in a sack at Aksa beach on Thursday. The woman was Nandani Pankaj Rai, 22, a resident of Poisar, Kandivli East. She was missing from December 8 and her father, Sudhir Thakur, had registered a missing person complaint at Samta Nagar police station on December 11.

Nandani was married to Pankaj three years back. Since then she had been staying in Poisar with him and her father-in-law. Her husband works in a dry fruit shop in Kandivli West, while her father-in-law supplies dhokla to various shops in the city. Police said her husband went to their native village at the beginning of December. Since then she was staying at home with her father-in-law.