Overview

• Ragpickers discovered a taped plastic bag near a dry stretch of the Hindon canal opposite Mulla Colony on Saturday evening, prompting a resident’s call to police.
• Police assess the remains to be roughly a month old and likely of a person aged 30 to 40, with severe decomposition hindering identification.
• A case has been registered under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 103 for murder and 238 for causing disappearance of evidence, with the scene secured for forensic work.
• Investigators suspect the killing occurred elsewhere before the body was dumped at the canal, with CCTV scans, missing‑person record checks, local intelligence gathering, and area searches underway.
• The body is preserved at a mortuary for at least 72 hours, the victim’s gender remains unconfirmed despite long hair noted by police, and the cause of death awaits the autopsy report.