The dismembered body of a 65-year-old woman was found in a drum in Bengaluru’s KR Puram area on Sunday. The drum was then dumped at a vacant plot near an abandoned house.
The deceased — identified as Sushilamma — and her daughter were living in a rented flat in KR Puram’s neighbouring area of Nisarga Layout. Police found the body only after receiving complaints from the locals about a stench emanating from that spot.
Additional Commissioner (Bengaluru East) Raman Gupta said that the incident might have taken place on Saturday, adding that he and other senior officers are examining the crime scene.
Police sources told News18 that a few suspected were picked up for questioning.
Dinesh, a resident of Nisarga Layout, is also one of the suspects picked up for interrogation by the police. He was well acquainted with the deceased.
Gupta told News18 that police have registered a case in connection with the murder and are waiting for the postmortem report to know the exact date of the murder. The motive behind the murder is yet to be ascertained.
Sushilamma has two daughters and a son. One of her daughters is working in a private company and a granddaughter studying in college.
The deceased used to go out to visit temples for one or more day, thus her daughter also assumed that she might have gone out.
He said necessary investigation will be undertaken by the authorities, adding that they have launched a manhunt to nab the accused behind this heinous crime.
HORRIFYING CASES FROM 2023
Last year, several such incidents of gory and horrifying murder came to light. Of them, Mumbai’s Mira Road murder was one of the most terrifying cases.
A 36-year-old woman was allegedly killed by her live-in partner and chopped into “several pieces” in Mira Road in June last year.
While 13 body parts were found at the residence of the accused, he disposed of other parts after cutting them into several pieces, sources had told News18, adding that the accused used to “boil body parts in cooker” to ensure there is no foul smell.
The accused, Manoj Sahani (56), was arrested while trying to flee from his rented apartment. He had been living with the victim — Sarawasti Vaidya — in flat 704 at J wing of Geeta Akash Deep building in Geeta Nagar Phase 7 over the past three years.
In July, the body of a woman, chopped into several pieces was recovered by the Delhi Police near Geeta Colony flyover area.
Director General of Police of North Delhi had said that the body parts have been found in two different places near Geeta Colony flyover in Janmuna Khadar area.
In September, a 28-year-old labourer allegedly strangled his wife to death and chopped her body into pieces before disposing them into a gorge in Rushikulya River in Odisha’s Ganjam disrict.
He was questioned after being picked up on the basis of an FIR lodged against him by his mother-in-law in Kodala police station area.
Police said, “Following a heated exchange of words at their home on Wednesday night, the accused strangled his wife to death and carried her body to the gorge, chopped it into five pieces with an axe and threw those into the river.”
Police claimed that the accused had confessed to committing the crime but were waiting for evidence with the recovery of the body parts.
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