Body parts, severed head dumped near river bank

Over a dozen highly decomposed, chopped body parts, supposedly of a woman aged between 35 to 40 years, were found in two polythene bags from dense bushes at Yamuna Khadar near Geeta Colony flyover in north Delhi on Wednesday, police said.

- Karn Pratap Singh

Police said the two black bags were found dumped in the area about 50-60 metres from each other. One of the bags contained only the severed head, while the parts of the torso were stuffed in the other bag, police added.

Both the bags were filled with substantial amounts of salt, possibly to ensure that the body decomposed quickly, officers aware of the matter said, adding that forensic tests show that the body parts were nearly five days' old. "We suspect that each bag was filled with at least 2kg salt due to which the body parts were putrefying rapidly. The decaying process would have been faster had it not rained incessantly over the weekend. Some amount of salt was spilled around the spots where the bags were dumped," said a senior police officer, who was present at the crime scene.