Mumbai/Nashik, July 10
Police has found human remains, including three skulls, near a farm house of Bollywood starlet Laila Khan who has been missing since early last year, while the key suspect in the kidnap case has claimed she has been murdered.

The remains were found today after a day-long search by a team of Mumbai Crime Branch near the farm house located in Igatpuri, about 100 km from here in Nashik district, police sources said.

Crime Branch is probing the kidnapping case of Laila and her family members. Prime suspect Pervez Tak had told the J&K Police that he shot dead Laila and others in Maharashtra last year.

"We have found three skulls and cloth pieces in the septic tank of the farm house this evening," sourses said.

Tak, a forest contractor, was taken to Igatpuri by the team following his claim that the starlet and her family members had been killed.

The human remains were recovered from the place shown by Tak, the sources said. "Tak showed us some places where we dug and found these remains." Police said they would send the remains to forensic laboratory to ascertain the identity. Rains and fog hampered the search operation.— PTI