Red suitcase on train, body parts, CCTV clue: How cops traced Chennai woman's killers
Chennai police are searching for a couple suspected of murdering a woman and transporting her dismembered body in a suitcase on a train. The investigation was aided by CCTV footage from a railway station, which helped identify the suspects.
Why it matters
This case highlights the use of modern surveillance technology in solving violent crimes and the challenges of interstate criminal investigations in India.
BHUBANESWAR: A team of Chennai police on Sunday launched searches at several locations across Odisha in pursuit of a couple suspected of murdering a Jagatsinghpur woman and disposing of her mutilated remains in a suitcase aboard the Tamil Nadu Express.The severed body parts of Hayathun Nisha, 38, from Jagatsinghpur district, were first recovered from a red trolley bag at Agra railway station on August 5. Subsequent investigation led police to her rented home in Guduvanchery, Chennai, where more body parts were recovered last Friday.A senior Odisha police officer said Nisha worked for a private firm in Chennai and shared the rented accommodation with Manik Uddin Laskar, a native of Assam, and Bhagabati Majhi, from Odisha.“Believing they may have fled to Odisha, Chennai police have sought our cooperation to track them down,” the officer said.The case came to light after railway staff at Agra station found the decomposed and beheaded remains…
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