SANGRUR: Much to the bafflement of the
government railway police, bodies of a woman and a baby were found stuffed inside a suitcase on board the
Dadar-Amritsar Express, on Saturday, prompting the cops to initiate investigations.
The unidentified bodies were found in bogey numbered S-4 after some of the passengers reported about an abandoned suitcase which was emitting foul smell after the train crossed the
Nabha railway station. As the train reached the
Dhuri railway station, a team of GRP boarded the express train and pulled out the abandoned suitcase, in which they found the two bodies.
While the cops could not establish the identities of the two, they said the woman appeared to be in her late twenties and baby girl was four to five months old.
Jagjit Singh, assistant sub-inspector, GRP said the passengers reported foul smell from bogie numbered S-4 as the train crossed the Nabha railway station. On reaching Dhuri he along with a team of cops entered the said bogie and recovered the two bodies from under seat number 41.
He said the cops then shifted the bodies to the mortuary of the
Dhuri civil hospital for post-mortem examination and registered a case under Sections 302 (murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Jagjit Singh said upon preliminary investigations the cops had spotted an injury mark at the back of the head of the woman while it appeared that the baby girl had been strangulated to death. However, only an autopsy of the bodies would establish the exact cause of the death, the GRP cop said.
