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| New modus operandi of killers - Unexplained Mysteries | | Two raped, murdered in 8 months; their bodies thrown in woods | | BHARAT BHUSHAN
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 1: In the past less than eight months, mystery offenders have outraged the modesty of two young women, murdered them and then thrown their bodies in forests, baffling police.
While one such incident was reported in Reasi, the other took place in Billawar, Kathua.
It is felt that the killers dumped the bodies of their human prey in forests under a new modus operandi to elude detection.
"To avoid capture, a killer may change his or her technique, but such deviations are rare and never seem to last for long," a senior police officer said. The woman, whose bloodstained body was recovered from Thakra Kote forests of Ganjot in Reasi in December last year, remains unidentified even after nearly an year of the incident.She had blood stains on her nose and left eye, and her lips were
swollen.She was raped and then mercilessly murdered. To avoid detection of
the crime, the killers later threw the body in forests, the officer added.
The body was first spotted lying in the bushes by some passersby. Its one leg had been eaten by wild animals.
The spot, where the body was lying, falls under the jurisdiction of Reasi police station. After the matter came to their notice, cops had reached there and evacuated the body to the Reasi district hospital.
When no claimant came forward for three days, police performed last rites on the body after taking its photographs.
The officer said a handkerchief recovered from her had Delhi Public School (DPS) embroidered on it.During investigation, it was known that the Rajouri branch of DPS
had given such handkerchiefs to its staffers, the officer added.A Reasi police team then went to the Rajouri DPS and showed the deceased's photographs to the school management, staffers and students, but no one could provide any clue to her identity. In her photographs circulated to local newspapers, the victim looked fair and beautiful. She wore salwar-kameez. The officer said she was either from Rajouri, or Himachal Pradesh.
The body of another unidentified woman was found lying in the Bakth forests of Billawar in July last. While the Reasi victim's face was intact, the face of the Billawar
victim was disfigured beyond recognition as it had been crushed with a heavy stone.
A medical report had later confirmed that she was raped and then murdered.
While a special police team was last week constituted by IGP Ashok Gupta to probe into the Billawar blind murder, the Reasi case file was almost lying closed.
To get probed the Reasi case too and take it to the logical conclusion, the IGP ought to constitute another special team and send it to Reasi.The officer said in both the incidents, the offenders had adopted the similar strategy. By throwing bodies in forests, they got enough time to leave the area without giving anybody a chance to get
suspicious of them, he added.Asked if he found any link between the two incidents, the officer said it would be known only after these were investigated by police.
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