Special Correspondent
for Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji (GA)
Panaji, Aug 14: Bangalore techie Meghna Subhedar's death case took a new twist with the DNA test confirming that the body found floating on Goa beach was not of the lost girl.
Meghna, 28, was missing from Mumbai from April 11 while she was the way to her native at Chhatisgarh from Bangalore.
Her movements were traced in Goa and a dead body with similar description of her was found floating at Candolim beach on June 25.
After initial confirmation, the family members had raised suspicions on her identity roping in the help of DNA experts to confirm it.
"We have received the DNA test results which confirm that the body is not of Meghna," superintendent of police (North) Bosco George stated.
The test results have given a new twist to the entire episode with the police re-launching their operation to search the girl, who was employed as a software engineer in Bangalore firm.
"The parents are happy that the DNA test does not match. This means that there is a hope of Meghna being alive," George said.
Meghna's parents have arrived in Goa on Thursday August 14 and held discussions with the police on the report.
After the initial confirmation, Meghna's father Dr Mohan Subhedar had raised the doubts over the identity.
"Initially, with certain identification marks, I had said the body is that of my daughter but after my wife arrived she has raised her doubts on the identity," Subhedar had said asking for the DNA test.
The father had identified the body on the basis of hair cut and hair quality, the old fracture of the right collar bone, tattoo mark of star like figure on the left arm and a small fibroid in the uterus which was detected by her mother, who is a gynaecologist.
Doubts were raised after the mother came up with the contention that the tattoo mark was a little higher on her shoulder.
"I consulted a few of my doctor friends who said fracture of collar bone and fibroid cannot be considered as identification marks as it can happen to anyone," Subhedar had stated.