Chhattisgarh horror: Youth's body coated with cement & stuffed in trunk found dumped in Raipur; suspect couple held from Delhi airport while fleeing, accused tried to delay detection
RAIPUR: In a gruesome and coldly calculated murder that has shocked Chhattisgarh capital, the body of a young man was found plastered in cement, stuffed inside a suitcase, and sealed within a steel trunk, an apparent attempt to suppress the odour and delay detection.
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The grisly find was made after residents in Raipur's DD Nagar area alerted authorities to a noxious stench emanating from an abandoned trunk near a roadside bush.
Following swift investigation, a couple, identified as the son and daughter-in-law of a retired assistant sub-inspector of state police, was arrested at Delhi airport while attempting to flee.
CCTV footage captured the suspects transporting the trunk in an Alto car with its rear hatch ajar, offering crucial leads that cracked the case wide open.
The capture shows two men in the car and the trunk loaded in the rear while a woman with her face covered, also following the vehicle on a two-wheeler.
Speaking to TOI, Raipur SSP Lal Umed Singh confirmed that the accused couple was arrested and the mastermind Ankit Upadhyay is a lawyer by profession, who took help from his wife to dispose off the body.
SSP Singh said that the victim Kishore Paikra was an elderly man who lived alone and prima facie it appears that he was killed by slitting throat on June 21-22.
He added that the police are yet to interrogate the prime accused couple and would divulge all details related to investigation soon. Police have found the shop from where the trunk was procured and CCTV footage shows they carried it in an e-rickshaw.
On Monday evening, residents in DD Nagar area's Indraprasth Colony, Phase 2, got suspicious spotting a new truck lying abandoned on roadside bushes and going close to it, they realized they couldn't stand the stench, following which, they raised an alarm.
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A police team reached the spot and broke opened the trunk which had a heavy and concrete suitcase inside. Upon breaking the plaster, it was shocking to find a body of a man.
Preliminary investigation indicate that the body was stuffed in the suitcase first and then plastered in cement. The footage shows the car entered the colony around 9.50 am on Monday and the car's number plate was fiddled and changed with another, to mislead probe.
Former Congress MLA Vikas Upadhyay personally visited the crime scene. He stated that the crime graph in the state is continuously rising.
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