Torso in suitcase: Victim is Tamil woman, police hunt on for Odia couple

CCTV footage showed the couple carrying the suitcase to Chennai Central station

CHENNAI: More than 15 days after a torso was found stuffed inside an abandoned suitcase aboard the Tamil Nadu Express when it arrived at Agra Cantonment railway station, police have identified the deceased as Haidul Nisha.

She hails from Paramakudi in Tamil Nadu.While the suspects, a couple from Odisha, have been identified, neither the motive nor the manner of the murder has been ascertained.Police have released CCTV footage of the suspects, Manik Uddin Laskar and Bhagmati Majik of Odisha.Police traced the suitcase to a rented house on Mosque Street, Guduvanchery. After police found the house locked, they questioned neighbours, who said that two women and a man from Odisha had been staying there.Special teams formed to trace the suspects tracked their mobile phone signals and found that they had fled to Odisha.Three teams have been sent to Odisha to nab the couple.The train had left Chennai Central for New Delhi on August 5 and reached Agra on August 6.Passengers alerted railway officials after noticing a foul smell from a red suitcase in the general compartment.Agra railway police opened the suitcase and found the headless, dismembered body of a woman.

With the assistance of the Tamil Nadu police, Agra Railway Police examined more than 350 CCTV recordings from Chennai Central and Guduvanchery.The footage showed a man and a woman carrying the suitcase to Chennai Central and boarding the train.They later got down, travelled to Guduvanchery and left the station in an autorickshaw.