A former Miss Chennai and model Bidushi Dash Barde was found dead in her Mumbai apartment on Tuesday. The 23-year old was found by her husband on Monday night and was rushed to a hospital, where she was declared brought dead. The body bore injury marks inflicted with a sharp weapon.
According to Bidushi’s father, who is an Air Force official, his daughter had also worked in a number of South Indian films. After returning from work at around 8 pm, Kedar entered the apartment using a duplicate key as repeated knock on the door did not elicit any response. He found Bidushi, a diabetic, lying in a pool of blood outside the bedroom. Kedar had left home at around 7.45 am, police said.
He alerted the neighbours and Bidushi was taken to a nearby private hospital where she was declared dead before admission, said VD Bhoite, Senior Inspector at DN Nagar Police Station. Initially, police suspected Bidushi may have collapsed due to diabetes-related complications and suffered fatal injuries after falling on a glass showcase.
However, the postmortem report showed she was stabbed, following which police registered a murder case. According to police sources, a neighbour told the investigators that she had seen a man at her house for a while on Monday afternoon. Kedar and Bidushi had a love marriage three years ago and they moved to Mumbai one and half years ago. Police collected CCTV footage from the building.
–PTI