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Three chopped, mutilated bodies in 9 days puzzle south Delhi cops

Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi
Dec 05, 2016 08:48 AM IST

It could be an eerie coincidence that three corpses found within 10km of each other over the past nine days in New Delhi were chopped and mutilated almost identically.

It could be an eerie coincidence that three corpses found within 10km of each other over the past nine days in the Capital were chopped and mutilated almost identically.

All three were murdered somewhere and their bodies dumped elsewhere, in New Delhi.(Reuters File Photo)
All three were murdered somewhere and their bodies dumped elsewhere, in New Delhi.(Reuters File Photo)

Police in south and south-eastern districts, where the bodies of a man and two women were found, have launched separate investigations to solve the mystery — are there separate murderers, or a single killer is involved.

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Investigators suspect the victims — probably between 30 and 40 years of age — were murdered somewhere and their bodies dumped elsewhere. And the murder weapon for any of these three cases is yet to be recovered.

“The bodies were dumped at three spots after being murdered. If we find a weapon in even one case, it will help us crack the case. Even if we identify one body, it will help us in our probe,” an officer said.

The only obvious clue is that the victims were chopped to pieces before being dumped. Police have not been able to identify them yet.

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“These mutilated bodies appear to be separate murder cases. We are working round-the-clock to find the culprits and are confident of nabbing them soon,” joint commissioner of police Dependra Pathak said, refusing to link the three horrifying murders to a single killer.

The first victim was a woman in her mid-30s. Her naked, decapitated corpse was found in a sewer on the ground floor of a building in south Delhi’s Munirka on the night of November 25. Police have not found her head yet. Civic sanitation workers are checking the network of drains nearby.

On December 2, the body of a man, with his legs and nose chopped off, was found at in Mangal bazaar in Sangam Vihar. The man, probably 40, had cut marks on his face. He was almost naked, barring a vest and underpants. The body was wrapped in a blanket and dumped outside a shop.

A day later, police in Amar Colony — roughly 10km from Sangam Vihar and Munirka — were informed about a woman’s corpse in a drain near a Delhi Jal Board office. The body was in a black bag. The lower torso was hacked off at the waist.

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    Prawesh Lama covers crime, policing, and issues of security in Delhi. Raised in Darjeeling, educated in Mumbai, he also looks at special features on social welfare in the National Capital.

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