Overview

• A woman in her mid-20s, wearing vermilion and toe rings, was discovered inside a suitcase along Ghaziabad’s Behta Hajipur–Banthla canal road on June 10.
• Ghaziabad police have sent the body for autopsy and are gathering forensic evidence to establish her identity and determine the cause of death.
• Ashiq Kumar and seven others were arrested in connection with the May 21 Bengaluru case after a 17-year-old from Bihar was lured with false marriage promises, killed for refusing a physical relationship, and dumped near Chandapura railway tracks.
• Investigators relied on CCTV footage of two men carrying a blue suitcase and viral social media images to trace suspects to a hideout in Bihar.
• The spate of suitcase-concealed murders across multiple states has spurred enhanced forensic coordination and renewed calls for vigilance against intimate-partner violence.