Body in bag:
Identified as Myanmar national
New Delhi, May 23,
2011 (IANS) – The woman whose body was found stuffed in a
travel bag three days ago in west Delhi has been identified as a 22-year-old
Myanmar national brought up in Manipur, police said Monday.
‘The victim has been identified as Chong alias Cecelia. She
hails from Myanmar, but was brought-up in Manipur. She came to Delhi in 2005
with her ex-husband whom she divorced last year,’ said Additional Commissioner
of Police V. Renganathan.
A voter identity card found in the room where the decomposed
body was found Friday helped in identifying the woman, police said.
The voter card was in the name of Cecilia’s friend, a student
from Manipuri staying in Delhi.
‘We established the victim’s identity after successfully
locating and questioning the person whose voter card was found,’ said
Renganathan.
‘According to the statement of the friend of the victim, after
divorcing her husband, Chong had started hanging out with Nigerian nationals
residing in various parts of Delhi. We are questioning several persons in
connection with the case,’ added Renganathan.
Police said Nigerian Innocent Nwayo, the man from whose rented
accommodation in Uttam Nagar the black travel bag carrying Chong’s decomposed
body was recovered, was staying in the country under a false name.
Police said the absconding Nigerian businessman’s real name is
Mac. A lookout notice has been issued to trace him.
Body in bag: One held,
prime accused on the run
NEW DELHI: Two days after the decomposed corpse of a woman in
her early twenties was found stuffed inside a black travel bag in a small
locality of Uttam Nagar Phase II, one of the two accused in the case has been
detained by the police for questioning. The prime accused though is still on
the run, with police fearing that he might have left the city.
Though sources confirmed the incident, senior police officers
refused to come on record claiming that the matter was still under
investigation. “Our investigations are on and we are working on some leads.
Several teams are working on the case and we are trying to identify the girl as
soon as possible,” said a tight-lipped additional commissioner of police V
Renganathan.
“We have the passport copies of both the accused and know that
Innocent Nwayo alias Mark, the prime accused, had come from Mumbai to Delhi.
Accordingly we have sent a team there as we suspect that he has fled from
Delhi. The other tenant, Michael, lived on the third floor,” explained a senior
police officer.
Police sources claimed that they had contacted their
counterparts in northeast India for any clue about the identity of the victim.
“The girl appears to be of northeast descent and is about 5 feet 4 inches, fair
and slim. She was dressed in capris and her face was badly decomposed. We have
also contacted northeast activists in case they are able to help with her
identification. It appeared that she had been killed at least 18-20 days ago,”
claimed a senior police officer. Though police sources claimed that the girl
was found inside the bag in just her capris and lingerie wrapped in a quilt,
Renganathan vehemently denied the claim.
Innocent lived on the first floor and a third tenant, Michael,
on the third floor. “They had valid business visas from October 2010 till later
in 2011. They had told the landlord of their house that they had some export
clothing business but we have not found evidence of any such business. We are
probing their possible involvement in a crime racket such as drug peddling or
cheating. From the information gathered from neighbours, it appears that the
Nigerians were regularly visited by some girls,” said a senior police officer.
A resident of the area claimed on the condition of anonymity,
“Girls in the age group of 20-22 years would regularly visit them in expensive-looking
party clothes and accessories. Once when I stopped them and asked them who they
were, they claimed to be students. They would come in odd hours too. In March a
Nigerian had been caught dealing drugs in the area.”
While Michael had been living in the building for the past eight
months, Innocent had started living in the house since February 4. Said their
landlord Gurudev Singh, “Both of them were supposed to pay rent at the
beginning of the month but they did not show up at my office. Innocent’s phone
was switched off while Michael wouldn’t answer his phone.”
Police claimed that there are roughly 2,000 African nationals
staying in west Delhi alone. “There are quite a few of them living in areas
such as Kakrola, Nawada, Anand Nagar, Uttam Nagar and Mahesh Nagar. Earlier we
found several of them indulging in criminal activities and living on expired
visas,” said a senior police officer.
The decomposed body of the victim was found around 4pm on Friday
after the police were informed that there was a stench on the first floor of
the Uttam Nagar house. ~ TOI
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Body in bag: Notice for missing tenant
NEW DELHI, Dwaipayan Ghosh, TNN | May 22, 2011: A day after the
decomposed body of a woman was recovered from a rented accommodation in west
Delhi, police have issued a look-out notice for Innocent Nwayo (31), the man
who had been staying in the same accommodation since February 4 this year and
has gone missing for the past 15 days.
“We have found that Nwayo had entered India on October 31 last
year through Mumbai and his visa expires on October 28, 2011. He had told his
landlord that he was into garment business. We have now informed the Nigerian
embassy about him and questioning several people — including Nigerians — in the
Uttam Nagar, Nawada and Dwarka areas,” said additional CP (West) V Renganathan.
Reminiscent of the decomposed body of the woman in her early
twenties was found stuffed inside a black travel bag in a small locality of
Uttam Nagar Phase II. This is the fourth such incident in the capital in the
last two months.
Cops said she was killed 12-15 days ago. ~ TOI
Decomposed corpse of woman found
NEW DELHI, By Prerna Sodhi, TNN | May 21, 2011: Reminiscent of
the Neetu Solanki case, the decomposed corpse of a woman in her early twenties
was found stuffed inside a black travelling bag in a small locality of Uttam
Nagar Phase II.
The body was found inside the first-floor house of a
three-storey building that had been reportedly rented out to a Nigerian
identified as Nwayo, who is currently missing, said cops.
According to the police, Nwayo, a Nigerian who claimed to be in
the garment business, was residing in the flat on the first floor of the
three-storey building, since February.
“Around 4pm the police were informed that there was a foul odour
on the first floor. After searching the flat we found a highly decomposed
corpse of a woman in a black travelling bag,” said V. Renganathan, Additional
Commissioner of Police (west).
“The man who lived there is missing. The body of the woman could
not be identified as it was highly decomposed. The corpse has been sent for
postmortem to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital,” Renganathan added. However, police
sources claimed that the deceased was of Nepalese origin.
The landlord of the flat, Gurdev Singh, who was taken to the
police station for further questioning, had kept a copy of Nwayo’s passport
that has helped the police in identifying the man residing there, said cops.
“The landlord has kept a copy of the passport that has helped us
in identifying the name and nationality of Nwayo,” said the police.
The people residing in the neighborhood say that for 12
consecutive days Gurdev Singh had been going to the flat to collect the rent.
“For 12 days Khalsaji (the landlord) has been coming here to
collect the rent but no one answered the door. Today when he came he said he
could smell foul odour after which he called the police,” said Karnail Singh, a
62 year-old man who resides in a small flat on the ground floor of the same
building.
Karnail said he hardly saw the occupants of the building as they
seldom ventured out. He says that he never saw them creating any ruckus.
“I do not know much about the names and people who lived here.
But what I do know is that around five to six African nationals lived on the
three floors of the building,” he said.
Meanwhile, a balcony where bystanders had gathered to watch the
corpse collapsed and some of them were injured in the fall.
As the police carried out their investigation, residents of the
neighborhood gathered at the spot to watch the corpse. Many stood in balconies
to see the police taking the corpse away from the spot when one of the
balconies gave away and collapsed under the weight of around 20 people who
stood on it.
According to the police around three people were injured who
were rushed to the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital. However, there were around
eight women and children at the spot suffering from minor injuries, waiting to
receive first aid.
“Around 20 people mostly women were standing in a balcony
watching the dead body wrapped in a white cloth being taken away when the
balcony collapsed,” said Sehra Khatoon, one of the injured women waiting to be
tended. Khatoon’s six-year old son Danish and 19 year old daughter Afrozi also
suffered from minor injuries.
Karnail Singh’s wife who is half-paralyzed from the right side
was also injured. “She was sitting on a chair under the balcony when it
collapsed. They have taken her to the hospital,” he said.~ The Times of India
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*Compiled by KHALVONTAWI MEDIA.
