Delhi: 3 mutilated bodies found in same area in 9 days

New Delhi: In a strange coincidence, 3 corpses have been found within 10 kilometres of each other in Delhi over the last 9 days, in a mutilated and chopped off condition.

Police in south and south-eastern districts, where the bodies of a man and two women were found, have launched separate investigations to solve the mystery, said a report in the Hindustan Times.

Investigators suspect that the victims, who are between 30 and 40 years of age, were murdered somewhere and their bodies dumped elsewhere.

The investigators seek to find out if there was a single murderer or an entire group involved in the crimes.

“The bodies were dumped at three spots after being murdered. If we find a weapon in even one case, it will help us crack the case. Even if we identify one body, it will help us in our probe,” an officer was quoted as saying.

The victims were chopped into pieces before being dumped, and hence identifying them has not been possible yet.

The first victim was a woman in her mid-30s. Her naked, decapitated corpse was found in a sewer on the ground floor of a building in south Delhi’s Munirka on the night of November 25. Police have not found her head yet. Civic sanitation workers are checking the network of drains nearby, said the report.

On December 2, the body of a man, with his legs and nose chopped off, was found at in Mangal bazaar in Sangam Vihar. The man, probably 40, had cut marks on his face. He was almost naked, barring a vest and underpants. The body was wrapped in a blanket and dumped outside a shop.

A day later, police in Amar Colony — roughly 10 km from Sangam Vihar and Munirka — were informed about a woman’s corpse in a drain near a Delhi Jal Board office. The body was stuffed in a black bag. The lower torso was cut off at the waist.