Bengaluru: The decomposed body of a woman was found in the drum of Bengaluru SMVT railway station, India’s first fully AC railway station. This is the third time a woman’s body has been found at a railway station in Bengaluru in the last three months. The bodies of young women were found abandoned in Baipanahalli in December and in Yeshwantpura in January.
Police suspect the presence of a serial killer in all the murders, but this has not been confirmed. No clear evidence has yet been received regarding the three murders. The railway protection force officials were puzzled by the stench in the terminal since Monday morning but the source was not known.
The body was found in the drum near the automatic sliding door in the evening. The body was covered with cloth. The police said that the dead woman has not been identified and is believed to be between 31 and 35 years old. District Police Chief Dr. Soumyalatha informed that the police got the footage of three people carrying barrels in an auto-rickshaw near the railway station gate on Monday.
On December 6 last year, the body of the woman was found inside the compartment of the train stopped at Baipanahalli railway station. On January 4, the woman’s body was found inside a barrel at Yanthwantpura railway station in Bengaluru. All three are above 30 years of age. The move of the police is to investigate the similarity in the method of murder and to separately examine the dead bodies found at SMVT and Yeshwantpura stations.