Chandigarh: Female foetus, woman’s limbs found in Sector 17

CHANDIGARH: A female foetus and limbs of a woman wrapped in a newspaper were found near a cycle track on Madhya Marg in Sector 17 on Tuesday, sparking panic.
Police said an employee of State Bank of India noticed the body parts when he was going to his office at 3 pm. When cops arrived, they found the foetus in a polythene bag a few meters away.
Police suspect someone had chopped the body parts and the foetus could be of the woman. Police said there were no blood stains on the limbs and they appeared to have been frozen for the last few days. Cops are checking death and birth records of girl child at private and government hospitals in the city as well as Panchkula and Mohali. Footage from CCTV cameras installed near the crime scene is being scanned to identify the accused.
A Central Forensic Science Laboratory team collected evidence. Police would get an autopsy conducted at the mortuary of Government Multi-specialty Hospital, Sector 16.
Krishan Kumar, DSP, central division, said a case was registered under Section 318 (Whoever, by secretly burying or otherwise disposing of the death body of a child whether such child die before or after or during its birth) of the IPC against unknown persons at the Sector 17 police station.
On May 21, Sector 31 police had arrested a couple for dumping the body of a newborn baby girl in a garbage bin at Ram Darbar on May 13. The man had claimed that his wife had given birth to a stillborn and he dumped the body.