Home-alone woman murdered, body parts stuffed in fridge

Shocking murder of a woman, body parts found in fridge, police suspect male friend as prime suspect.

In a shocking incident, a 26-year-old home-alone woman was murdered and her body parts cut into several pieces and stuffed in the fridge of the house she was living in at Vinayaka Nagar in Vyalikaval here on Saturday.

The deceased has been identified as Mahalakshmi from Nelamangala. The victim was working in a mall and was living in the rented house for the last five months.

The police suspect the murder could have taken place a fortnight ago as the body parts were highly decomposed and worms were found in them.

The murder came to light when her neighbour complained of a foul smell emanating from the locked house and managed to get the contact number of the victim’s family and informed them. When the family members came home and opened the door, they were shocked to find body parts cut into several pieces and kept it in the fridge, a police officer said.

The police and FSL team analysing the scene of the crime recovered Mahalakshmi’s mobile phone, which, according to the police, was switched off on September 2. Going by the decomposed body parts and the electronic evidence gathered from the scene of the crime, it is suspected that she was murdered and her body parts chopped in the house before they were stuffed in the fridge.

Mahalakshmi hailed from Nepal and was married to one Hukum Singh five years ago. The couple has a four-year-old child. The police said the couple had differences and she left him from Nelamangala and came to stay alone in Bengaluru. She was working as a salesperson at a shop at a mall.

Her husband used to visit her once in a while, said the police. However, she was staying alone in the rented house and did not communicate much with the neighbours.