Delhi: Headless body found near Khalsa college

NEW DELHI: There was panic in Delhi University’s

North Campus

area on Sunday morning after a headless body of a man was found stuffed in a black bag near Khalsa College. The body also had its arms cut off.

Cops said that the bag was found by a newspaper delivery boy during the early hours of Sunday on Mall Road going towards Khyber Pass. Subsequently, a PCR van came and unzipped the bag to find the torso of a man, with his legs bent and stuffed. The body was then taken to a nearby hospital and has been preserved in the mortuary for further examination.

An team led by ACP (

Civil Lines

) Ashok Tyagi has started investigation. Cops indicated that the injury marks on the body are fresh, suggesting that the victim is likely to have been killed on Saturday night and then the body would have been dumped on the road.

Another vital clue recovered from the body is the tag of the shirt of the deceased. Cops said that the tag reads ‘Shakti Tailors — Nai wali gali — J-Nagar’. The information about the tailor shop and ‘J Nagar’ is being further cultivated to identify the deceased.

DNA and other biological samples of the deceased have been taken by the forensic experts to collect more information. Investigating officers suggested that the cuts on the body suggested that a sharp meat cleaver-like object was used by the accused to kill the man.


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