Body found on beach is not that of missing IT exec

Body found on beach is not that of missing IT exec
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Panaji: The decomposed body of a woman found on Candolim beach in June is not that of Meghna Subedar, a software engineer who had gone missing from Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus on April 11, DNA tests at Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Hyderabad, have shown.
Meghna had quit her job in Bangalore on April 1 and was on her way home to Korba, Chhattisgarh. She had last withdrawn money from an ATM in Margao.
Reacting to the negative results, a relieved Mohan Subedar, Meghna’s father, who arrived with his wife in Goa on Thursday, said, “Now there is some hope for us. Our daughter is alive and we will continue searching for her. My wife has been fasting and we have been praying hard. God has answered our prayers.”
Meghna’s mother added, “We want our daughter back. We just hope that our daughter knows that we love her and are worried about her.”
Confirming the report, SP (North) Bosco George said, “Since the DNA samples don’t match, the body remains that of an unknown person for us and we will try to identify her.” The report also ascertained that the woman was not sexually assaulted, he said.
Meghna’s parents, who asked the Calangute police to conduct the DNA test, will go to Mumbai on Friday to pursue the missing person’s complaint registered with Mumbai police.

August 15, 2008, The Times of India, Goa edition