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Maharashtra: She lay unseen under fallen tree for 48 hours
Updated On: 22 June, 2024 06:48 AM IST | Mumbai | Diwakar Sharma
Virar civic officials fail to clear fallen tree since Wednesday, family finds missing senior citizen’s body under it on Friday
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Authorities shift logs of wood to find the body of Manjula Jha trapped underneath. Pics/Hanif Patel
A man, desperately searching for his mother who had been missing for 48 hours, reviewed multiple CCTV recordings and identified a likely location. He broke into tears upon recognising his mother’s saree under a large tamarind tree that had fallen on Wednesday morning. Her body, highly decomposed, was recovered 48 hours later. The victim, identified as Manjula Jha, was in her late 60s. Her son has blamed authorities for doing nothing to recover the body. Despite her son’s missing person report filed at Arnala police station on June 19, the body of the senior citizen remained trapped under the uprooted tamarind tree for over 48 hours. mid-day reached out to VVCMC several times but there was no response.
The victim Manjula Jha
After the agencies, including civic as well as police officials, were informed, they all rushed to the spot and her highly decomposed, jewellery-laden body was recovered. The body was sent to a nearby rural hospital in Virar, where her post-mortem was conducted. mid-day visited her residence at Bolinj Naka in Virar, where the family members were crying inconsolably over the irreparable loss. “Jha had shifted to Virar hardly a week ago, along with her two sons and their families. Previously, they lived in Kashimira for more than two decades,” said a neighbour. “Had I been known of the life threat in Virar, I would have never shifted,” sobbed her younger son Naresh Jha, who works in the film industry.
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