The body of the boy identified as Vijay Mali was found around 5km downstream at Sadad village in the river by the locals. Police said that the body was found in a badly decomposed state with the head and one leg missing.
However, the identity was verified by the injury marks and the clothes on Mali's body. The body was sent to the health centre in Padra for postmortem examination and a case of accidental death was registered at Padra police station.
Mali, a student of class VIII, was dragged away by the crocodile at Pingalwada village in Karjan taluka when he had taken his goats out for grazing on October 6.
One of the goats was stuck in the river and when Mali tried to rescue it, a crocodile pulled him into the river.
Mali's father Pravin who had tagged him, raised an alarm but within a minute the reptile had disappeared into the deep waters with the boy.
One night up on the Tip of Cape York in Australia, I came down to the local river at the tide change to watch the crocs come in from feeding out on the reef. We shined the light down the river and all the red eyes reflecting back at us looked like a freaking freeway.