Indore: How A 60YO Man Butchered A Troubled Woman For Resisting Rape

A woman's dismembered body parts were found packed up at two different locations. Her upper body parts were found on a passenger train in Indore while her legs were found on the Laxmi Bai Nagar-Yog Nagari Rishikesh Express (14317). In a new development in the case, the GRP officers revealed that a 60-year-old man was behind this gruesome crime. He invited an unknown woman to his home for a night stay. The next day, he drugged her and tried to rape her. But when the woman resisted, he strangled her to death. Then cut her body into pieces using a butcher's knife.

As per the reports, the accused has been identified as Kamlesh Patel who lives with his speech-and-hearing-impaired wife, Aarti, in the slums of Dewas Gate, close to Ujjain station. He is a history-sheeter with a number of cases of theft against him. His wife Aarti said that Patel had a habit of picking up homeless women, sheltering them and then developing physical relationships with them in front of her. 

The hair-raising details of the gruesome crime

A similar pattern was followed to target the deceased woman. Reportedly, the woman had a fight with her husband and on June 6 she left her home in a fit of rage. She reached Ujjain and waited at the station to go to Mathura.

Patel who was walking around at Ujjain station found the woman. He struck up a friendly conversation with her saying that the train to Mathura had already left. He offered her to stay at his home and assured her that there was no problem as his wife too lived with him.

The woman agreed and went with Patel to his home. GRP Officer Sanjay Shukla said, "After talking to him for a while, she confided in him, revealing that she had left her husband and intended to travel to Mathura," 

As soon as the woman reached Patel's home, she requested him to get her a new SIM card. Patel bought a SIM card in his name and also a strip of sleeping pills. The SIM card was never activated. 

On the afternoon of June 7, Patel executed his evil plan. He mixed four sleeping pills in the woman's lunch. As soon as she started to feel unconscious, he tried to rape her. However, the woman resisted and screamed. Enraged by her resistance and the fear of people getting to know about what was happening, Patel hit the woman's face with an iron bolt making her unconscious. Aarti who couldn't hear anything was asleep.

However, Aarti suddenly woke up and saw Patel attacking the woman. She tried to stop her husband but he threatened her and then strangled the woman with a rope. Then he went with his wife to the market to buy a knife for Rs 450. 

Then, at 3 am, Aarti went out to relieve herself when Patel locked her outside the house. He dragged the woman's body to the washing area and started cutting her into pieces. It took around 4.5 hours for him to do the gruesome act. He then packed the woman's body parts in three different bags. 

On June 8, he boarded the Indore-Nagda Express and hid two bags under a seat, However, the train left before he could hide the third bag. 

How the Police tracked the accused

Police found the deceased woman's clothes, her watch, slippers, a battery of her mobile phone, a packet of sleeping pills, a newly purchased and sharpened butcher's knife, and an iron bolt at Patel's house. 

Another clue that led the Police to Patel was the woman's phone location. Although the woman hadn't switched on her phone, Patel did. When a constable dialled the number, Patel answered the call and spoke in a soft womanly voice. He said he was in Mathura. The constable got confused as Patel sounded similar to a woman. 

The case however is solved now. Patel has confessed his crime to GRP officer Shukla. His wife Aarti testified against him by explaining everything using gestures.

Here are five things to know if you haven't tracked the case 

Women's dismembered body parts in Indore

Reportedly, on Saturday, June 8, a woman's dismembered body parts were found in Nagda-Mhow (Dr Ambedkar Nagar) passenger train parked at Indore railway station for cleaning and maintenance at 11 pm. The body parts were discovered by cleaning staff stuffed in two bags and tucked under a seat. The head and the upper body were found in a trolley bag while the thighs were stuffed in plastic sacks. 

The second set of body parts found in Rishikesh 

On June 10, Monday afternoon, cleaning staff at Yog Nagari railway station in Rishikesh entered the Laxmi Bai Nagar-Yog Nagari Rishikesh Express (14317) to clean it. The train arrived on Sunday around 7 pm after departing 1000 km away from Laxmi Bai Nagar station in Indore on Saturday at 3:15 pm. When the cleaning staff entered the passage between two sleeper coaches, they detected a foul smell. It was when they followed the foul-smelling trail that they were shocked to see arms and lower legs severed and wrapped in a black towel. 

Staff alerts GRP in Dehradun 

The cleaning staff immediately informed the Government Railway Police (GRP) in Dehradun who reached the spot to find the severed body parts. Since the train was arriving from a station in Indore, the GRP of Dehradun contacted the GRP of Indore. The GRP of Indore revealed that the body parts of a woman were found at the Indore railway station too. Hence the two cases got connected. 

A murder case was registered under sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence (or giving false information to screen offender) of the Indian Penal Code.

How was it concluded that the body belonged to the particular woman?

Dehradun GRP station house officer (SHO) Trivendra Singh Rana said that a tattoo was found on one arm which suggested that the woman's name was Miraben. The nails were also painted, he added. Forensic experts have examined the body and have clarified that they belong to the same woman.

DNA test to be performed

Indore GRP station house officer (SHO) Sanjay Shukla told news outlets that there was a bindi on the head. “However, we will still perform the DNA examination to confirm this, but that too is possible once the woman’s identity is ascertained," he said. He also said CCTV cameras on all the halt stations of the passenger train will be scanned to find leads.