Monday, 6 April 2015

Bodies in trunks raise honour killing spectre

CHANDIGARH: In a horrific incident, an unidentified couple was found brutally murdered in a park in Murthal (Sonipat), 15 kilometres from Delhi on Monday morning. With no clothes on, the bodies were stuffed in two separate steel trunks lying abandoned in the Devi Lal Park of Murthal on Ambala-Delhi National Highway 10. Police officials suspect yet another case of honour killing in Haryana.

The brutality has shocked the cops as the killers had dismembered the legs of the boy to ensure that his body fits into the trunk. Police believe that the couple might have been murdered somewhere else and the bodies were abandoned at the spot early in the morning.


The man's legs were lying over his body while the woman was stuffed with legs folded upwards. Since the park is located 10 kilometres from Sonipat city, nobody noticed the bodies till 9.30am. Multiple injury marks on their bodies suggest that the victims might have been subjected to torture and that they struggled before they died.


The woman victim was wearing wedding bangles and had kumkum on her forehead, suggesting that she was a newlywed. The cops are yet to verify if the man was her husband.


The trunks were noticed by a couple visiting the park and they informed the watchman who called up the police. Forensic experts, senior police officials including SP Ashok Kumar rushed to the spot.


"We have flashed messages across Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to identify the couple. It has been established that the two were strangulated," said inspector Ajay Kumar, the station house officer at Murthal. "We are treating this as a double murder."


A forensic team has collected fingerprints and the cops are also examining CCTV footage of cameras in nearby areas to zero in on vehicles used or the culprits.


Sonipat SP Ashok Kumar said that five teams, including a team of IT experts, have been pressed into action to solve the double murder mystery. "We are in touch with SPs of Panipat and nearby police districts of UP and New Delhi," he said.



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