Locals in Malad were shocked to find a suitcase with the body of a 20-year-old student and aspiring model Mansi Dixit on Monday morning, police were informed, and the Bangur Nagar police have arrested a student named Muzammil Sayyed.
According to the information released till now the victim had met Muzammil via social media, and they had met on the afternoon of Sunday at his apartment where after an argument he hit her with a blunt object and strangled her. He later put her body in a suitcase and left the body at Malad, where he dumped her body under some bushes.
The accused was caught because the cab driver who drove him from Andheri to Malad saw him suspiciously throwing the suitcase into the bushes and then later leaving in an auto. The police were then able to successfully track down the auto with the help of CCTV footage and catch the culprit. Muzammil confessed to the police after he was caught and he has been charged under the Indian Penal Code.
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