AGRA: Two weeks after the bodies of a woman and two minor children were found within a span of 72 hours on the Yamuna expressway in Mathura, police registered separate cases of murder against "unidentified persons" and sent the DNA samples of the victims to a forensic lab in a bid to establish a connection between the two incidents.
Talking to TOI, the superintendent of police, rural, Shirish Chandra said that the post-mortem report of all the three victims revealed that they had been strangled to death and then dumped. He said that they had sent details of all deceased to neighbouring districts and states for identification. However, no one has contacted them so far.
While the bodies of the children were found dumped on the Yamuna expressway within a five-km distance of each other, near milestones 74 and 79 that fall under the jurisdiction of the Naujheel and Surir police stations in Mathura on November 2, the woman’s corpse was found near milestone 129 in Mathura’s Baldeo area on November 5. Several injury marks were found on the bodies of the three victims. One child's body was found hanging upside down on a barbed wire. All the bodies were found on the Noida to Agra route.
