UP: Woman's body found stuffed inside suitcase in Hapur
Hapur (UP), May 30 (PTI): A woman's body was found stuffed inside a suitcase along a canal in Uttar Pradesh's Hapur district on Friday, police said.
Police suspect the woman was killed at another location and her body was later dumped in the canal to conceal the crime.
According to officials, the suitcase was first spotted by locals in the morning in Sikheda village in the Pilkhuwa area, who then informed the police.
A woman's body was found inside when the suitcase was opened, the police said, adding that she is yet to be identified. Preliminary observations suggest the body is around seven to eight days old.
The body has been sent for post-mortem and efforts are on to ascertain the woman's identity, Pilkhuwa Station House Officer (SHO) Patneesh Kumar said.
He said footage from CCTV cameras installed along the highway is being reviewed, and inquiries have been made in nearby police stations for any missing person reports matching the description.
Additional Superintendent of Police Vineet Bhatnagar visited the spot and directed Circle Officer Anita Chauhan and the local police to expedite the identification process.
This is the second such incident in the district in recent months. Earlier, a woman's body was found in a suitcase near Nizampur village along NH-09 in Hapur Kotwali Nagar area.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
