The Mumbai Police has arrested a man on the charge of killing a woman, whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase at Kurla in central Mumbai two days ago, officials said on Tuesday.
The accused was allegedly the deceased woman’s lover, they said, PTI reported.
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The suitcase containing the woman’s body was found lying abandoned on Sunday on the CST Road at Shanti Nagar, where work for a Metro project has been underway.
“A case of murder was registered at the Kurla police station and Unit-5 of the city police’s crime branch was also conducting a parallel investigation,” an official said.
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The crime branch apprehended the accused in connection with the murder of the woman.
The deceased woman was a resident of Dharavi in central Mumbai, the official said, adding that details of the case are awaited.
(With inputs from PTI)