Chopped woman’s body was rotting for a month, recovered in three parts

ROHTAK :In what takes the police closer to identifying the woman whose torso was found at Rohtak’s Purana Sugar mill area on Monday, its DNA has matched with other stray body parts the forensics had received on November 22 and December 5, doctors said on Tuesday. The postmortem has revealed that the body belonged to a young woman who would be in her 20s.

The cause of death could not be established as of now because the postmortem of the three parts was conducted by different set of doctors and the police are yet to share the photographs of scene of crime.

“The body part was highly decomposed and could be rotting for over 30 days. As of now, we can neither confirm nor rule out sexual assault since the genitals were infested by maggots and eaten by animals. We are conducting tests to check the presence of male sperm,” said Dr SK Dhattarwal, head of forensics at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS), Rohtak, and medical legal adviser to the state government.

The police have registered a case under Section 302 (murder) and 201 (destroying evidence) of the Indian Penal Code, but do not have any leads.

On Monday, the police had found a chopped torso of the woman, whose body above the waist and below the knees was missing. The torso was sent for postmortem at the PGIMS, Rohtak, where the forensics matched it with the DNA of the other stray parts they had received before, on two occasions.

Meanwhile, Rohtak MP Deepender Singh Hooda, on Tuesday, slammed the government for the increasing crime against women. The MP said recent incidents of Rohtak and Hisar reflected complete failure on the part of Haryana’s BJP government to maintain law and order.

THE CAUSE OF DEATH COULD NOT BE ESTABLISHED BECAUSE POSTMORTEM OF THREE PARTS WAS CONDUCTED BY DIFFERENT DOCTORS