The police said it appears the body parts have been inside the fridge for some time. Additional Commissioner of Police (West) Satish Kumar said the body has been identified
The police said it appears the body parts have been inside the fridge for some time
Bengaluru:
The body of a 26-year-old woman was found chopped into some 30 pieces and kept inside a fridge of an apartment in Bengaluru’s Vyalikaval, the police said. Foul smell from the apartment drew the attention of neighbours, who called the police to check.
The police said it appears the body parts have been inside the fridge for some time. Additional Commissioner of Police (West) Satish Kumar said the body has been identified.
“We will give more information after an initial investigation. She had been living in Bengaluru, though she originally belonged to another state,” Mr Kumar said.
A dog squad and a fingerprint team will secure the crime scene, while a team from the Forensics Science Laboratory (FSL) has been called, he said.
“It is a one-BHK house within Vyalikaval police station limits. The body of the 26-year-old girl was found cut into pieces and stored in a refrigerator. Prima facie, the incident did not occur today… We have identified the girl, but let us complete the initial investigation,” Mr Kumar said.
The police team that reached the apartment first saw the 165-litre, single-door fridge turned on and running, and maggots had infested the body, news agency IANS reported.
The case has parallels to the macabre murder of 27-year-old Shraddha Walkar in Delhi in 2022. She was killed by her boyfriend Aaftab Amin Poonawala, 29, and her body was chopped into 35 pieces. Poonawala then threw the body parts in a forested area near their flat.
“The body has been identified. The probe is going on. We will give more information after the investigation. She was settled in Karnataka but is originally from another state,” Kumar added.
The area has been barricaded and the body has been sent for forensic analysis, the PTI reported.
The city police further said they are investigating the CCTV footage from surveillance cameras installed in the area and suspect that someone close to the victim may have been involved in the crime. The police is also taking help of dog squad and the forensic experts too solve the murder mystery.
The police further said that the woman was working in a mall and was living separately from her husband. Her husband who works in a hermitage away from Bengaluru has returned after learning about the incident.
Notably, the incident reminds of the brutal murder of Shraddha Walker in May 22 in the national capital Delhi. Walker, 28-year, was allegedly strangled by her live-in partner Aftab Poonawalla in Mehrauli. Poonawala then allegedly cut her body into 35 pieces which he kept in a refrigerator for almost three weeks before dumping the parts of her body across the city. Later Delhi police recovered five knives from Poonawala’s rented flat where he killed Walkar but could not recover the weapon that was used to saw her body.
