Overview
- Cleaning staff on Sunday found a trunk and a bag in sleeper coach S-1 at Lucknow’s Gomti Nagar station that held a woman’s dismembered body.
- Police said the torso was packed in a metal trunk and the limbs were in a separate bag, and the missing head is hindering identification.
- The GRP registered a case at the Charbagh police station, sent the remains for post-mortem, and formed three special teams with RPF and forensic support.
- SP Rohit Mishra said the body appears about two days old and that wounds near the neck suggest the throat was slit.
- Officers are checking CCTV and reservation data along the Chhapra–Gomti Nagar route, and they are reviewing the Thawe stop in Bihar as a possible loading point.