PUNE: The crime branch officials on Tuesday recovered the body parts of a 31-year-old woman packed in three suitcases and disposed of 10 days ago in the Mutha ghat, along Pirangut-Lavasa road.
The suspect, a 40-year-old Budhwar Peth resident who had an extramarital affair with the deceased, was arrested on Tuesday. The victim was a commercial sex worker in the city’s red-light area. Crime branch inspector Mahendra Jagtap told TOI that the man admitted having murdered the woman and led the police to the spot where he had dumped the suitcases.
DCP (crime) Shrinivas Ghadge and ACP Surendra Deshmukh visited the ghat area to recover the suitcases. “ A case of murder has been registered with the Vishrambaug police as the incident occurred in a Narayan Peth flat,” said Jagtap.
The inspector said the police investigation revealed that the victim had moved from Mumbai to Budhwar Peth a year ago. About three months ago, she got into a relationship with the suspect, who is married . He had rented out a flat in Narayan Peth for her to stay,” said Jagtap.
On the night of August 12, the two had a quarrel in the flat. The man throttled her to death and left locking the flat from outside, said the inspector. “The suspect went to a friend’s place in Akkalkot in Solapur district, borrowed a tempo and came back to the flat on August 14. The same night, he dismembered the body, packed the parts in suitcases and disposed them,” Jagtap said. One of the brothel operators in Budhwar Peth had lodged a missing person’s complaint after the woman was not found for two days.
