In a horrific crime reminding us of the Shraddha Walkar case, Hyderabad Police on Wednesday arrested a man who killed a woman, chopped her body and stored it in the fridge. The accused was identified as 48-year-old B. Chandra Mohan.
According to the police report, Chandra Mohan killed Anuradha Reddy by stabbing her. He then beheaded her and chopped her body into several pieces and stored it in the fridge before disposing of it.
"On May 17, we received a complaint from a GHMC worker informing that at a garbage dumping place opposite Afzal Nagar Community Hall, near Musi river, beside Theegalguda road he found one head of an unidentified woman in a black cover," said DCP South East zone CH Rupesh.
During the investigation, police tracked down the murderer using CCTV in the locality and other evidence.
Similarities with Shraddha Walkar case:
Live-in partners
Anuradha Reddy, a local finance agent, was believed to be the live-in partner of Mohan, an online stock trader. The DCP said that Reddy, 55, became close to Mohan some years ago after she separated from her husband. They were living at his house in Chaitanyapuri colony in Dilsukhnagar.
The accused had loaned nearly Rs 7 lakh from Reddy since 2018 which he did not return despite repeated requests by her, the DCP said. When she insisted on getting her money back, Mohan got angry and hatched a plan to kill her.
On May 12, the accused picked up a quarrel with the woman on the issue of paying back the borrowed money and brutally stabbed her with a knife that left her dead, he said.
Murder strategy and weapons
According to an India Times report, Mohan reportedly purchased two stone-cutting machines to dismember the body. Police said that beheaded her and kept the head in a black polythene bag in the trunk, while her hands and legs were kept in the fridge. The rest of the body was stuffed in a suitcase.
Three days later, on May 15, he disposed of the body parts in a dumping yard on the banks of the Musi River and fled.
He used Phenyl, Dettol liquid, perfume spray bottles, agarbatti (incense sticks) and karpuram (camphor) and regularly applied them on the dismembered body to keep the bad odour away, according to the DCP.
He kept her phone and sent messages to people pretending to be her to avoid any suspicion.
The incident is a grim reminder of the gruesome murder of Shraddha Walkar who was strangled and killed by her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala in a similar fashion in Delhi.
He had kept her body parts in a fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in South Delhi's Mehrauli before scattering them at different places across the national capital to avoid getting caught.
He was charged with murder and is currently lodged in Tihar Jail.
