Murder in a Bengaluru apartment

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Trigger Warning: Distressing content.  A foul smell led to the discovery of a woman’s body in an apartment, dismembered into over 50 pieces. Here’s what happened in Karnataka’s

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00:00A 29-year-old woman's body was found chopped into pieces and stored in the refrigerator

00:05of her own apartment in Bengaluru.

00:13No one knew about the crime that happened in the apartment, until the neighbours became

00:16suspicious.

00:17Here's what we know so far.

00:25Mahalakshmi Das from Nepal was living alone on the first floor of her rented apartment

00:29in Bengaluru.

00:39She was married to Hemant Das, who owned a mobile store, but they were living separately

00:44and their 4-year-old daughter was living with her father.

01:01Mahalakshmi used to work at a clothing store in a mall.

01:04Her neighbours said a foul smell had been coming from her apartment for a few days.

01:08Initially they thought it was coming from rotten food, but they became suspicious when

01:12the foul smell eventually got stronger.

01:15On 20th September 2024, one of her neighbours called her family, complaining about the foul

01:19smell.

01:20Mahalakshmi's mother said she was informed about it around 7.30 pm in the evening, and

01:25they decided to visit her apartment the next day.

01:31On 21st September 2024, when Mahalakshmi's family reached the apartment, it was locked

01:36from outside.

01:37They then opened the door with spare key.

01:40Her mother said the apartment looked messy, with clothes, slippers and bags scattered

01:44in the living room.

01:45She added that there were some maggots near the refrigerator and it looked as if there

01:48were bloodstains as well.

01:50When they opened the refrigerator, they were devastated to find Mahalakshmi's body chopped

01:55into over 50 pieces.

01:56The police were then alerted about the incident.

01:59Her mother recalled the last conversation with Mahalakshmi over the phone, where the

02:02latter said that she would visit her husband soon.

02:05Hours after the murder was reported, four special teams were formed to investigate the

02:09matter.

02:10The police suspected that the body might have been cut into pieces somewhere else, as there

02:14were no bloodstains found at the apartment apart from the ones near the fridge.

02:18Bengaluru police registered an FIR under Section 1031 of the Bharatiya Naya Sanhita for the

02:24murder.

02:25We are investigating the case from all angles and more or less the culprit who is the French

02:33suspect who is likely to have committed this ghastly offence, he is identified, only thing

02:40is we are yet to apprehend him, in the sense we have not yet caught him, so as and when

02:46the person is caught and further his interrogation is done, then we will be able to provide further

02:52details regarding the case.

02:53In 2022, India reported over 28,000 murder cases across the country, out of which over

02:598,000 were women.

03:01In the Bengaluru murder case, several suspects had been detained.

03:05Mahalakshmi's husband alleged that she was having an affair and her lover might be involved

03:10in the murder.

03:11Although it wasn't confirmed who committed the crime, the investigation was still underway

03:15as of publishing this story.

03:16I already told that the prime suspect has already been identified, we have to physically

03:24arrest him, only then we will know further details, at this stage if I tell anything

03:28it will be to the benefit of the accused, not to the public, so I restrain from giving

03:33any further details.

03:34Is he from Bangalore or outside?

03:35He is an outsider.

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