Chennai/Bhubaneswar: In a major breakthrough, the Tamil Nadu police have arrested the primary suspects, an Odia woman and her husband, behind the gruesome murder and dismemberment of a 38-year-old woman whose body parts were discovered inside a suitcase aboard a train earlier this month.
The accused, Manik Uddin Laskar (22) a native of Cachar district in Assam, and his wife Bhagabati Majhi, hailing from Kendujhar district in Odisha, were apprehended at Kashimpur in Manipur’s Jiribam district following a relentless multi-state manhunt, police sources Sunday said.
According to the police, the horrifying crime came to light August 5, when passengers aboard Tamil Nadu Express noticed an unbearable odour emanating from an abandoned red suitcase in an unreserved compartment after the train pulled into Agra station.
Government Railway Police (GRP) officers inspected the luggage and discovered the headless, dismembered remains of an unidentified woman.
Subsequent investigation and forensic analysis identified the victim as Hayathun Nisha (38), a native of Odisha.
The couple had gone into hiding shortly after disposing of the body, triggering a pan-India search operation by special police teams.
