The Railways Protection Force (RPF) found a dead body in a suitcase at Dadar railway station in Mumbai during a luggage-checking operation on Monday.
The victim was identified as 30-year-old Arshadali Sadiqueali Shaikh, a resident of Santacruz East, who worked as a peon. The victim was a partially deaf-mute man.
Police have identified and arrested two people, who were carrying the body in a suitcase on the train after committing the murder. The body was completely wrapped in plastic and packed in a suitcase, the police said.
The two accused have been identified as Jai Pravin Chavda, a typist and Shivjeet Surendra Singh, who were arrested by Pydhonie Police Station late on Monday. The attackers were friends of the Shaikh.
The investigation has revealed that the murder resulted from a dispute between the victim, Arshad Ali Sheikh, and the attackers over a female friend.
The Mumbai Police came across a video, purportedly of the macabre crime in which the two culprits who killed their friend carried his body in a trolley bag at Dadar station where they were caught.
Police said that the incident unfolded on Sunday (August 4) after a huge brawl over a woman in 'a love quadrangle' when Chavda and Singh attacked Shaikh with multiple blows with a hammer and killed him at the former’s home in Pydhonie.
They stuffed the body in a trolley bag and Chavda was seen lugging it on Platform No 11 of Dadar station to catch a train and probably dump it off en route during the journey.
However, a Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable noticed it and detained the person on suspicion for questioning and searching the bag from which the blood-soaked body tumbled out.
The CCTV footage in police possession shows Chavda struggling with the trolley bag and hurrying to catch a local train around 11.46 pm on August 4 from Platform No. 11.
Chavda was seen waiting for a train, shoving the bag around, walking around and behaving strangely, catching the attention of an alert RPF constable, who took him aside for enquiries. Chavda’s questioning led the police to Singh who was also picked up and questioned on Monday and the lid was blown off the sensational 'body-in-bag murder' case.
The two accused were produced before a court on Tuesday and shunted to police custody till August 12, even as the police are tracking the antecedents of the video suspected to be shot by one of the friends, besides scanning the CCTV footage of the vicinity.