CCTV trail leads police to Chennai rental house in suitcase body-parts case
Police in India say they have traced a grisly suitcase case from an Agra railway platform to a rented house in Chennai, after CCTV footage,
Police in India say they have traced a grisly suitcase case from an Agra railway platform to a rented house in Chennai, after CCTV footage, railway records and forensic checks linked a red bag on the Tamil Nadu Express to a suspected killing site in Guduvanchery. The victim has been identified as Hayathun Nisha, a 38-year-old woman from Odisha.
Investigators say the woman’s remains were found in stages. Some body parts turned up in a red suitcase on the train at Agra Cantt railway station in early August. Other remains were later recovered from the Chennai house where she had been staying.
CCTV footage points to Chennai station
Police said a man and a woman were captured on CCTV carrying the red suitcase into Chennai Central railway station before leaving it on the Tamil Nadu Express bound for Agra. That footage became the key lead. From there, officers matched railway records and worked their way back to a rented house in Guduvanchery, on Chennai’s southern fringe.
The search widened fast. Around 350 CCTV cameras were reviewed by Government Railway Police and Railway Protection Force personnel, according to one of the reports. The trail eventually brought officers to the property linked to the suspects.
Short route. Long paper trail.
House search deepens the probe
At the house in Guduvanchery, police recovered more body parts, including the victim’s head, from a large vessel normally used for cooking biryani, according to initial findings reported by investigators. Earlier accounts said the body may have been kept hanging from the ceiling before dismemberment, though police have not publicly laid out a full sequence of events.
The accused are a man and a woman who had been living there as tenants. Police have identified them as Manik Uddin Laskar, from Assam, and Bhagabati Majhi, from Odisha, but they remain absconding. Their relationship to each other has not been established publicly.
Victim identified as Odisha woman
Authorities later identified the victim as Hayathun Nisha, also reported as Hayatun Nisha in some accounts. She worked at a private firm in Chennai and had been staying in Guduvanchery. One report said her son had objected to her relationship with Laskar and had later approached police after she went missing, prompting a missing-person case.
The case has spread across at least three states in the police response: Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Assam. Chennai police have sought cooperation from Odisha officers, while teams have also searched locations there after concerns the suspects may have fled the state.
For now, the investigation rests on a chain of evidence that began with a red suitcase on a train and ended inside a rented Chennai house. Police say forensic tests are still central to confirming the findings and tightening the case against the suspects.
