Body of naked youth found in abandoned suitcase on the highway

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Press Trust of India Palghar
Last Updated : Sep 26 2014 | 11:06 PM IST
The Palghar district rural police found the body of a youth lying abandoned on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway, police sources said today evening.
Assistant police inspector B S Shinde from the Virar police station told PTI that around 10 am in the morning some villagers noticed a suitcase lying abanadoned on the roadside on the highway opposite KT Resort.
They went and checked the suitcase which contained the body of a young man aged around 30 years in the suitcase. The body had only a underwear on it and bore strangulation marks on its neck.
The local police took charge of the body and sent it for postmortem, the police officer said.
He also said that an offence under Section 302 and Section 201 of the Indian Penal Code has been registered.
A manhunt is on to trace the killers, he said.
No arrest had been made so far and the body is yet to be identified, he said.
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First Published: Sep 26 2014 | 11:06 PM IST

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