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A rotting smell engulfed a stretch near Hyderabad's Botanical Garden Road in Kondapur on Tuesday, 30 January, as a large number of people gathered in one corner of the road.
There was constant commotion as policemen kept asking the public to back away from the crime scene, as a forensic team was at work, and officials were looking for additional clues.
At the centre of it all, was the body of a woman, chopped into several pieces and dumped into two sacks. While a smaller sack had her hands and legs, the larger sack had her head and body.
The residents of Sri Ram Nagar in Kondapur who woke up to a shock on Tuesday, said that they have never seen such a case before.
The body was found at around 7:30am by two workers of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), Chennaiah and Narasimha, as they did their morning rounds to collect garbage.
The GHMC officials at the spot informed their higher authorities, following which the police were called. The police arrived at the spot by 8 am.
The gruesome murder has left the area in a state of shock, as it is situated close to the IT corridor, where several multi-national corporations (MNCs) are located.
"It is shocking that something like this happened so close to my place. Locals know about the meat dumping problem, and may have assumed that the sack was just the same," says a techie from Cognizant, who had passed by the area at 6 am in the morning.
The area also attracts several joggers and cyclists.
Police officials at the spot said that the state of the body parts and the stench suggest that the woman had died two or three days ago, and her body was dumped in the late hours of Monday or the early hours of Tuesday.
Several locals were also seen at the spot, covering their noses, and trying to get a glimpse of the body.
A team of officials collected forensic evidence from the spot, before the body parts were bound in a larger sack and transported to the Osmania General Hospital for an autopsy.
Gachibowli Inspector M Gangadhar, who reached the spot, said:
The police are also looking through missing person’s complaints filed across Hyderabad, to identify the woman.
“We will have a better idea of the entire incident in a day or two,” the police official said.
(This story was originally published on The News Minute and has been republished with permission.)
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