The way the woman was murdered in Azamgarh village reminds the killing of 27-year-old Shraddha Walker whose live-in partner cut her body into 35 pieces and dumped them in various locations of New Delhi. The horrid sight of the body of the woman whipped the policemen into silence for a while.
Azamgarh (UP): A body of a woman with her head, hands and legs chopped off has been fished out of a well at Pashchim ka Purwa village on the Durvasa-Gahaji road in the Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, the police said on Tuesday.
The gruesome murder in Azamgarh took place on the heels of the killing of a 27-year-old woman, a resident of Palghar in Maharashtra, Shraddha Walker in New Delhi. Her live-in partner Aftaf Ameen Poonawalla cut her body into 35 pieces and dumped them in different locations in New Delhi. The couple was living in Delhi. The murderer has fallen into police dragnet.
In the morning on Tuesday, as some residents of Pashchim ka Purwa village were going to their farmlands, they found the body in the well, 150 metres from the village, and informed the police about it. Immediately after that, a police team rushed to the spot and fished out the body. The horrid sight whipped the onlookers and the police into silence for a while.
As the police could not find the head of the body, they could not identify the woman, but the incident spread panic among the residents in the area. According to superintendent of police Anurag Arya, the police are trying to ascertain the identity of the woman.
A forensic team and a dog squad also rushed to the spot of the crime. The body was only in undergarments.
