Bengaluru woman’s body chopped into pieces: Prime suspect found dead in Odisha, police say ‘suicide note has confession’

On Saturday, constabulary had discovered Mahalakshmi’s assemblage stored wrong a fridge astatine her residence successful Bengaluru’s Vinayaka Nagar. Police had formed peculiar teams to nab the accused, and they yet zeroed successful connected Ray arsenic the premier suspect.

Bengaluru DCP (central) Shekhar H Tekkannavar confirmed to The Indian Express that Ray had committed suicide.

According to constabulary successful Odisha’s Dhusuri, Roy allegedly committed termination by hanging from a tree. Shantunu Kumar Jena, the officer-in-charge of the constabulary station, told The Indian Express that they received a study astir a suicide, and identified the unfortunate arsenic Ray.

“We received the study astir 8:15 am. His assemblage was hanging from a roadside histrion adjacent Bhuinpur (where helium lived). We sent it for postmortem astir 9 americium and past handed it implicit to the family,” Jena told The Indian Express.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Odisha’s Additional Director General, Law and Order, Sanjay Kumar said the constabulary person recovered a termination enactment successful which Ray purportedly admitted to committing the crime.

“The Odisha Police person already registered an unnatural decease case. Based connected the termination note, the Bengaluru constabulary person confirmed helium is the accused successful the gruesome execution case,” Kumar told The Indian Express.

Asked whether the Odisha constabulary person handed implicit the termination enactment to the Bengaluru police, Kumar said it’s present a tribunal document. “The Bengaluru constabulary person to taxable a requisition archetypal and instrumentality support of the court, pursuing which we volition manus implicit the termination note,” said Kumar.

A constabulary serviceman said Ray had visited his colony astir 4 americium with his laptop bag, and near location connected a two-wheeler a portion later.

The Bengaluru metropolis police, who were successful Odisha arsenic portion of their probe, are believed to beryllium en way to the village.

Mahalakshmi and Ray, constabulary say, worked successful the aforesaid promenade and had been friends since 2023. Mahalakshmi, who worked arsenic a squad person with a costume outlet successful Malleshwaram, was separated from her husband.

While the constabulary questioned respective radical associated with Mahalakshmi, including her hubby and colleagues, they recovered Ray missing from his Bengaluru residence.

The constabulary past contacted his brother, who told them Ray had called him implicit the telephone and confessed to the murder. He told the constabulary helium had asked Ray to permission the state. Police said Ray made the telephone to his member from West Bengal, and that was his past location.