TNN | Mar 23, 2012, 06.57AM IST
NEW DELHI: The woman whose dismembered and headless body was found in a gunny bag near the Inderlok Metro station last Saturday night (March 17) was killed by her live-in partner, police claimed on Thursday. They also said the murder was not related to the discovery of a man's body on the Grand Trunk Express in Chennai the same day.
Police said Pooja, 20, a native of Pauri Garhwal, and Yogesh Sharma, 21, had been living together for two years when she recently announced her pregnancy, and started pressuring him to marry her. But Yogesh, who wanted to be rid of her, brought over two friends on March 16 and allegedly killed her with their help.
The north Delhi district police, who have arrested Yogesh and his friends Vinay Kumar and Ajay, said they cracked the case with just two initial clues and extensive legwork . The initials 'PJ' and 'YS' tattooed on Pooja's severed right forearm hinted at the names of the victim and someone intimate, while a torn photograph of a woman on the riverbank in Haridwar, with the name Pooja scribbled behind it, pointed to the victim's likely roots. TOI had first reported the significance of this photograph on Tuesday.
Investigators scanned a database of missing women to match the photo, and also made enquiries with photographers in Haridwar. Suspicions were roused when a couple enquired about a missing woman at the Shanti Nagar (Keshav Puram) police post soon after the body was found. Questioning of the police personnel revealed that the man was Yogesh and the woman was Pooja's elder sister. "The policemen said Yogesh was not very keen to lodge a report and he was only making a show of searching for Pooja before her elder sister," said IB Rani, DCP north.
Police said the accused, who were arrested from Yogesh's factory in Tri Nagar on Thursday morning, had confessed to killing Pooja and then dumping her body. Piecing together the sequence of events, officials said Yogesh, Vinay and Ajay got together at the couple's rented house last Friday afternoon for drinks. Later, they choked Pooja to death, hacked her body into pieces, and dumped it in the drain called Ganda Nala in the Sarai Rohilla area.
Rani said Yogesh and his friends had burnt Pooja's head before cutting her body into pieces. The police have found the chopper used in the crime, and some remnants of the body in Yogesh's factory. But the head has not been found.
The incident had sent shockwaves in the capital. Around 11am last Saturday, an officer inside the emergency response vehicle patrolling near the n a l a (Najafgarh Drain) behind Inderlok Metro station had noticed a gunny bag wrapped in a blanket near the wall of the drain.
"The stomach was found cut and the legs were cut into four pieces. The left hand was cut in three while the right hand was cut in two. On inspection , the letters 'PJ' were found tattooed near the wrist on the right hand while 'YS' was tattooed on the right forearm ," said Rani. "The head was also severed and burnt. It was thrown into the Ganda Nala."
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Police said Pooja, 20, a native of Pauri Garhwal, and Yogesh Sharma, 21, had been living together for two years when she recently announced her pregnancy, and started pressuring him to marry her. But Yogesh, who wanted to be rid of her, brought over two friends on March 16 and allegedly killed her with their help.
The north Delhi district police, who have arrested Yogesh and his friends Vinay Kumar and Ajay, said they cracked the case with just two initial clues and extensive legwork . The initials 'PJ' and 'YS' tattooed on Pooja's severed right forearm hinted at the names of the victim and someone intimate, while a torn photograph of a woman on the riverbank in Haridwar, with the name Pooja scribbled behind it, pointed to the victim's likely roots. TOI had first reported the significance of this photograph on Tuesday.
Investigators scanned a database of missing women to match the photo, and also made enquiries with photographers in Haridwar. Suspicions were roused when a couple enquired about a missing woman at the Shanti Nagar (Keshav Puram) police post soon after the body was found. Questioning of the police personnel revealed that the man was Yogesh and the woman was Pooja's elder sister. "The policemen said Yogesh was not very keen to lodge a report and he was only making a show of searching for Pooja before her elder sister," said IB Rani, DCP north.
Police said the accused, who were arrested from Yogesh's factory in Tri Nagar on Thursday morning, had confessed to killing Pooja and then dumping her body. Piecing together the sequence of events, officials said Yogesh, Vinay and Ajay got together at the couple's rented house last Friday afternoon for drinks. Later, they choked Pooja to death, hacked her body into pieces, and dumped it in the drain called Ganda Nala in the Sarai Rohilla area.
Rani said Yogesh and his friends had burnt Pooja's head before cutting her body into pieces. The police have found the chopper used in the crime, and some remnants of the body in Yogesh's factory. But the head has not been found.
The incident had sent shockwaves in the capital. Around 11am last Saturday, an officer inside the emergency response vehicle patrolling near the n a l a (Najafgarh Drain) behind Inderlok Metro station had noticed a gunny bag wrapped in a blanket near the wall of the drain.
"The stomach was found cut and the legs were cut into four pieces. The left hand was cut in three while the right hand was cut in two. On inspection , the letters 'PJ' were found tattooed near the wrist on the right hand while 'YS' was tattooed on the right forearm ," said Rani. "The head was also severed and burnt. It was thrown into the Ganda Nala."
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