Woman’s murder: couple arrested in Manipur transferred to Chennai
Almost a month after a woman was murdered in Chennai and her body parts were found in an abandoned bag on a trolley aboard the Tamil Nadu Express in Agra Cantonment, the Guduvanchery police have arrested a couple from Manipur in the case.
Those arrested — Manik Uddin Laskar and Bhagabati Majhi — are being taken to Chennai after obtaining a prisoner transit permit from the Jirbham District Magistrate in the northeastern state. A senior officer of the Tambaram Police Commissionerate said the team is expected to reach Chennai on Sunday evening. “Only after the suspects are brought to the city and interrogated, the entire murder plot could be found,” the officer said.
Police arrested a couple on Saturday in connection with the murder of a 38-year-old woman in Guduvanchery, whose dismembered and dismembered body parts were found stuffed in a bag on a trolley aboard the Chennai-New Delhi Tamil Nadu Express in Agra earlier this month. While Laskar hails from Dakshin Krishnapur, Sonabarighat, in Assam’s Cachar district, his wife Bhagabati Majhi hails from Odisha.
The murder came to light on August 5 when the body was found in the rear general compartment of the Tamil Nadu Express in Agra. The Agra Railway Police has launched an investigation.
After being informed, the Chennai Central Railway Government Railway Police and the Railway Protection Corps examined the CCTV footage from Platform 4 and saw a man and a woman carrying a suspicious bag on a trolley and boarding the train. Their movement led investigators to Guduvanchera where they identified a rented house in Masuthi Street where the couple allegedly lived with another woman. The deceased was later identified as Hayathun Nisha, 38, wife of Jahhur Khan and a native of Jagatsinghpur, Odisha. She stayed in Guduvanchery and worked in a private firm.
The police found that Laskar and Bhagabati were missing. During the investigation, police officers also found body parts from a cooking pot in the area. Tambaram City Police Commissioner Prem Anand Sinha formed a special team to track down the suspects. A senior police officer said the team traveled to a remote and inaccessible area of Manipur to search for Laskar. The team stayed in the area for over a week tracking his movements before locating him. “This area was remote, we couldn’t move much during the day and it was raining. The team camped for more than a week and finally tracked down the accused,” said the officer.
Police said the motive behind the murder would be ascertained only after the couple was brought to Tambaram and questioned.
Published – 30 Aug 2026 23:55 IST