A “quiet and intelligent” girl was GP Bhivandkar’s closest friend’s younger daughter.

“I am really worried about what may have happened to her. She was my close friend’s daughter. She used to study really well and top her class,” said Bhivandkar.

Minal, the younger daughter of the Panchals, attended the Our Lady of Remedy School.

Her father, an architect himself, died five years ago after a bypass surgery.

Her mother shifted recently to New Jersey to live with her elder daughter Kavita.

Meanwhile, professors at Rizvi College, Bandra, from where Minal graduated with a first class in architecture, feared the worst. “Minal could be one of the victims,” said Jamshed Bhiwandiwalla, senior lecturer, who taught her. His fears were confirmed tonight.

(Swatee Kher, Mihika Basu and Smita Nair contributed to this report)