The forensic department of the KEM Hospital has helped the Navghar police crack a two-month-old murder case with the help of facial reconstruction and 3D superimposition technology, which they used to put a face on the victim's severely fractured skull. Yogesh Rane, a worker at a tea stall in Mulund had in March smashed the face of his colleague Vijay Kishor and burnt his upper body for laughing at him at the gym. He was caught after he attempted to kill another co-worker when the latter started asking him questions about Kishor's sudden disappearance.

The police were finding it difficult to identify the victim, whose body was found near Kelkar College in Mulund on March 27. The upper body was burnt to the bone while the lower part was intact when the cops found the corpse. When the police failed to identify the body after combing through 2,000 missing person's files, they approached the KEM forensic department for help. As Kishor's family members, who live in Uttar Pradesh, were unaware about his disappearance, no missing person's complaint was filed here.