Hyderabad: Kin chop man's body, stash in sack and dump

HYDERABAD: The mutilated body of a 50-year-old man stashed in a bag was found abandoned under mysterious circumstances near a dargah in Lungar Houz late Thursday. The suspects, both siblings, who were tracked down from CCTV footage, told police their brother died after a protracted illness and since they didn't have money for the funeral, they decapitated him, chopped off limbs, stuffed it in a bag and dumped it in the shadows. The brother-sister duo, who police claim is of unsound mind, was booked for murder. "We will alter the murder charge if the autopsy report of the deceased, Ashok, points to natural death," said a police officer.
Lungar Houz residents alerted police minutes before midnight when they found blood oozing out of the abandoned bag. When police rushed to the site and opened the bag, they found the chopped body. Locals told cops the bag was dumped by two persons who came in an autorickshaw.
A fter verifying inputs from CCTV footage, police zeroed in on the brother-sister duo — Raj Kumar and Swaroopa — who reside in Kali Mandir area of Rajendranagar. During questioning, the duo confessed to the crime.
ACP (Asifnagar) Siva Maruthi said: “Though the suspects cited poverty to buttress their claim, they could have also dumped the body, instead of chopping it. During questioning, we found the duo to be of unsound mind. The crime was committed in their thatched house,” he added.