Overview

• A newspaper vendor alerted authorities after discovering a trolley bag containing the body of a young woman on Tuesday morning in Baguihati, Kolkata.
• The victim was found wearing a salwar kurta with her lips sealed using brown tape, and the body has been sent for a post-mortem examination.
• Investigators suspect the woman was murdered elsewhere before her body was placed in the bag and left at the roadside.
• Kolkata Police are reviewing CCTV footage and cross-referencing missing persons’ diaries to establish the victim’s identity and gather leads.
• The case has drawn parallels to a February incident where a mother-daughter duo was arrested for attempting to dispose of a dismembered body in a trolley bag in the Hooghly River.