Overview
- Police detained bus driver Monu Singh, also reported as Monu Solanki, after tracking a vehicle seen near the dump site with its headlights off.
- A headless, handless torso was found on November 6 in a Sector 108 drain and later identified as Preeti, a Noida resident in her early 30s.
- Officers say the suspect attacked her inside his bus, severed her head and hands to conceal identity, left the torso in Noida, and disposed of other parts in Ghaziabad’s Siddharth Vihar.
- The investigation deployed about 40 teams that scanned more than 55,000 vehicles and thousands of CCTV feeds, along with mobile surveillance.
- Police recovered additional remains, a chopper or sickle, clothing, and a bloodstained bus mat, seized the bus for forensic analysis, and registered a murder case at Sector 39, with tests confirming human blood on key items.