Pune: Partially burned body of lawyer found case registered

Police recovered a partially burned body of a lawyer who went missing from Pimpri-Chinchwad on December 31st. The body was discovered along the Maharashtra-Telangana border in Madanur. Shivshankar Shinde has been identified as the dead.

The Wakad police station has received a complaint. During a police search, the body was discovered half burned. Shankar vanished from his office on December 31, 2022. His family then filed a missing person report at the Wakad police station. His body was discovered a few hours later.

Shankar is suspected of getting into a confrontation with an unknown person at his Kalewadi workplace. The police are looking into whether Shivshankar was kidnapped and murdered.