Punjab Crime News: Police in Punjab’s Bhatinda have arrested a man two days after a half-burnt body of a 22-year-old woman was found in a suitcase. The deceased’s friend, Prince Kumar, was arrested on Friday. Revealing further details of the case, which they described as ‘Crime of Passion’, police said that after killing the friend, the accused got a photo of himself with the woman tattooed on his chest.
The police discovered the suitcase, the knife believed to have been used in the crime and the car that the accused used to transport the body.
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What Is The Case
The accused 35-year-old unemployed man, stabbed the woman to death on early hours of February 9 and kept her body in his home for two days before trying to burn it. The accused later placed the half-burned body in a suitcase, and he allegedly threw the remains in fields near Behman Diwana village along the Bathinda-Fazilka national highway on the intervening night of February 10-11
The victim was from Baghapurana in neighbouring Moga district and had been living in Bhatinda.
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While the motive behind the murder could not be ascertained, the police said the accused used to live alone, and he committed the crime alone, as no one else was involved.
Police was able to catch Prince after a CCTV footage from the Parasram Nagar area showed the victim together with Prince on February 7. This was the last time she was seen alive. Further investigation into the case revealed that the man in the footage with the victim was the murderer.