Identity of the headless dismembered body of woman yet to be ascertained

Lucknow: The Govt Railway Police (GRP), Lucknow, is yet to ascertain the identity of the headless dismembered body of a woman, found in Chhapra-Gomti Nagar Express on Sunday morning.

An official source at GRP said that multiple teams were working on the case adding that the identity of the woman could not be identified yet.

Since the victim’s identification is pending, autopsy will be conducted 72 hours from the time of recovery. The victim’s torso was recovered from a box, and limbs from a heavy-duty cargo bag next to the lavatory of the S1 coach.

“We are scanning the footage from stations along the train route to identify the person who carried the body onboard,” the source said.

Station director of Gomti Nagar railway station, Ranjeet Sagar, said: “We received an alert from the sanitation team that an unclaimed box and a cargo bag were lying in the coach. Till this point, nobody had any idea about the dismembered body of a woman. It was only after the box and bag were taken down on the platform and opened in presence of GRP and RFP, the railway came to know about the body.”