Body of woman found in suitcase in New Ashok Nagar
NEWDELHI: The body of an unidentified woman was found stuffed in a suitcase near Dharamshila hospital in east Delhi’s New Ashok Nagar on Tuesday night, police said. The woman has at least three deep stab wounds on her face. Police said a name, ‘Mohit’, was found tattooed in Hindi on the right arm of the woman. No identification documents were found in the bag or from the possession of the woman. A case of murder has been registered at the New Ashok Nagar police station.
NEWDELHI: THE body of an unidentified woman was found stuffed in a suitcase near Dharamshila hospital in east Delhi’s New Ashok Nagar on Tuesday night, police said. The woman, police said, has at least three deep stab wounds on her face.
Police said a name, ‘Mohit’, was found tattooed in Hindi on the right arm of the woman. No identification documents were found in the bag or from the possession of the woman. A case of murder has been registered at the New Ashok Nagar police station.
Police have not ruled the possibility of sexual assault before murder. They have sent the body for post mortem and are waiting for the autopsy report for confirmation to ascertain the exact cause of death. Investigators said that they were looking at the case from various angles, including that of personal enmity.
Deputy commissioner of police (east) Pankaj Singh said the incident came to light around 8pm on Tuesday, when a passerby spotted a trolley bag lying near a drain of Dharamshila hospital and called the police control room. A police team along with members of the crime scene investigation unit immediately reached and cordoned off the area.
“The blue bag was opened and the body of a woman, aged between 25 and 30 years, was found stuffed inside. One stab wound was found on her temple while two deep cut wounds were found on either sides of her cheeks. A tattoo mark with Mohit written in Hindi was found on her right arm,” said Singh.
Police said the woman was wearing a salwar-kurta but her footwear was missing. They suspect that the trolley bag — which is 26 inches long, 17 inches wide and 11 inch deep — in which the
woman’s body was found was purchased solely for the purpose of dumping the body.
“Prima facie, it appears that the woman was murdered somewhere else and her body abandoned at an isolated place near the drain to delay identification and subsequent investigation,” said a police officer, associated with the case.
The police are preparing a list of women, aged between 20 and 30 years, missing complaints about whom were received at police stations across Delhi-ncr in the last three four days. The physical description and photographs of the woman have been uploaded on the zonal integration police network for identification. “The CCTVS installed on routes leading to the drain are being scanned for clues,” the officer said.