A body of an unidentified middle-aged woman was found stuffed in a suitcase lying in a drain alongside a road in Bawal town of Haryana’s Rewari district, police said on Monday.
The police said a passerby spotted the abandoned suitcase on Sunday evening and opened it to check for its owner, only to find the body. He immediately informed the police.
The woman was wearing a red dress and had several injury marks on her body, the police said, adding, her elbows and knees were tied with a cloth.
The body had been sent for a postmortem and the autopsy report is awaited to ascertain the cause of the death, police said.
Bawal police station in-charge Deepak Kumar said they have registered a case under Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (destroying evidence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).