Overview
- The case began when staff near a Hyundai showroom reported a foul smell from an unattended suitcase and Chandili police recovered a woman’s body.
- Police arrested 30-year-old Boli Setti Suresh Kumar, an autorickshaw driver from Ganganagar in Visakhapatnam, and produced him before a Rayagada court.
- Authorities identified the victim as Sandhya of Vijayawada and say she had been in a relationship with the accused.
- Investigators say the suspect packed the body in a suitcase, moved it by train from Andhra Pradesh to Rayagada, and abandoned it after hiring an autorickshaw from the railway station.
- Police report the accused confessed during questioning and say forensic work and cross-state coordination with Andhra Pradesh police are ongoing as the murder case proceeds.