Severed head of woman found near Kurla train tracks
MUMBAI: Ghatkopar police on Saturday evening discovered the severed head of a woman along the tracks near Kurla railway station. Police suspect that it may belong to the unidentified woman whose body was found at Vidyavihar on December 30.
On December 31 morning, police had also recovered two legs in a garbage bin, 500m from where the body was recovered.
Soon after the body parts were found, police had directed locals and youngsters to keep watch in the vicinity, for a human head.
“We had informed several groups to keep an eye for wrapped packets, because the killer may have used the same technique that he used while disposing of the other body parts. The other body parts were found wrapped in a bedsheet and the legs were wrapped in a blue tarpaulin sheet,” said a police officer.
“Some children living along the tracks were playing cricket when they saw a dog ravaging a black plastic bag. When the boys saw the head, they informed their family members. One person aware that the police was searching for the head of a woman, alerted the Ghatkopar police,” said the officer. The head was partially decomposed and appears to belong to a woman in her 40s, the officer added.
A crime branch officer said, “It appears that the killer had used the Vidyavihar route and after disposing of the body and legs, he drove towards Kurla and later onto the Santacruz Chembur Link Road (SCLR). He threw the head from the SCLR bridge near the railway tracks.