Tattoos inked on the body of a deceased victim helped cops solve a murder mystery. A decomposed body of a man was found last week near the Jogeshwari Vikhroli Link Road JVLR. After eight days of investigation, the cops finally identified the victim with the help of the three tattoos on his body and his brothers-in-law were booked for murder on Friday. Primary investigation has revealed that the man was killed for allegedly assaulting his mother-in-law and the accused-s mother.

Hit on face
Parksite police had found the body at Dadaiwala Stone Pvt Ltd company near JVLR road on February 20. Medical examination established that the man was murdered 48 hours before his body was found. An offence of murder was registered at Parksite police station on February 21 against unknown persons. Post-Mortem analysis revealed that the victim was hit with a paver block on his face and head. His body had three tattoos — -SR- on the right arm, -om- on the left arm and -SN- on the right side of his neck. DCP Zone VII Akhilesh Kumar Singh soon formed a special investigation teamSIT to probe the matter.