- By Shivam Shandilya
- Sat, 21 Sep 2024 10:09 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
Bengaluru Murder: A 29-year-old woman's dismembered body was found in a house in Malleswaram, reports news agency PTI, quoting police sources on Saturday. According to the police, the body of Mahalakshmi's body was cut into over 30 pieces, and it was stuffed in a refrigerator.
According to news agency PTI, the senior police officers reached the spot and barricaded the road leading to the building where the body was found in a single bedroom house, where the victim was staying alone. Police suspect it to be a matter of murder, which took place about a week ago.
The probe has been launched in the case, and it is underway.
Additional Commissioner of Police (West Zone) N Satheesh Kumar said, "A woman's body was found chopped into pieces and stored in a fridge at a house within the Vyalikaval police station limits. It appeared to have been done 4-5 days ago."
He also said that the dog squad and the forensic experts too visited the spot and started the probe.
"The body has been identified. The probe is going on. We will give more information after the investigation. She was settled in Karnataka but is originally from another state," Kumar told reporters.
According to news agency PTI, it is learned that the woman was living separately from her husband. Mahalakshmi lived in Malleswaram and was in a mall, and her husband worked in a hermitage away from the city. After learning about the incident, he too came to the spot.
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The incident is a reminder of the brutal murder of Shraddha Walker by her live-in partner Aftab Poonawalla on May 20, 2022, at Mehrauli in Delhi. Twenty-eight-year-old Poonawala allegedly strangled Walkar and sawed her body into 35 pieces, which he kept in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence before dumping them across the city.
(With input from agencies)