Police suspect that the same killer gang was involved in the dispatch of a male torso in trunk on GT Express and the dumping of body parts of a woman in a gunny bag near a park in north Delhi.
The torso-in-trunk was most probably put on the Chennai-bound train by the killers in Delhi. A police team from here has left for Delhi to check if there was any link between the two murders, according to Mr R. Sekar, ADGP, TN railway police.
There is strong suspicion that the two murders are linked—the same type of sharp weapon has been used in both cases, the timing matched and the location too could be the same in Delhi. The killer(s) also used identical method of murder and disposal of the bodies after beheading.
“It is possible that the two murders are linked. It could be a crime of passion. We must see if the woman, believed to be in her late 20s, was involved with the dead man (whose torso came in the trunk on train), who we think is in his 40s. We must check if her husband killed them both. And looking at the manner in which her body was cut into several pieces, it is possible that the killer was very angry with the woman. May be he had warned her a few times to keep off the lover and got furious seeing she did not”, said another officer on condition of anonymity. He said it could be possible to identify the woman because of the tattoo marks on the body. “And that could be a beginning to solving this gruesome crime”, he added.
Meanwhile, the torso-in-trunk underwent postmortem examination at the government general hospital and kept at the morgue. Photographs and video footage of the body has been taken by the police team to Delhi to assist the investigators of the woman’s murder.