Officials yet to locate Kirti Vyas’s body

Mumbai: Despite claiming to have sufficient evidence against Siddhesh Tamhankar and Khushi Sehjwani, the Crime Branch officials are yet to find the body of 28-year-old Kirti Vyas.

The police said they had acquired CCTV footage of the couple’s car picking up Kirti in the morning and of passing the toll booth at Wadala-Mahul Port Trust Road at night, but the inability to trace the body has put them in a soup. According to the crime branch sources, officials have tried all tactics on the two arrested accused, Tamhankar and Sehjwani, so that they would crack and give out the location where they dumped Kirti’s dead body.  

Even two weeks after the arrest of the accused duo, crime branch officials are unable to recover the body, which can prove to be a groundbreaking development in the case.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a crime branch official said, “To locate the body, we have used various tactics like using high end drone cameras, taking help from the divers, and have tried to use a dummy to trace the trajectory of the body in the Mahul creek. But all our efforts have so far been in vain. Since the atmospheric conditions were not similar to the day when Vyas was supposedly killed, no results could be drawn from such tactics.” Police inspector Prashant Raje, crime branch unit 2 said, “We are probing the case but the inability to find the corpse has brought us to a halt.”

Vyas, who was a finance manager at BBlunt’s Andheri (West) branch, was last seen on the morning of March 16 in Sahjwani’s Ford EcoSport, after she and Tamhankar had picked her up from outside her home in Bharat Nagar on Grant Road, and allegedly offered to drop her to work. Based on evidence, the crime branch had arrested the duo.