Cases of missing women on the rise

City and Cyberabad police are facing a tough task solving cases of ‘unidentified’ bodies with ever-increasing crime rate, particularly on city outskirts.With less manpower and more focus on bandobust, police are reportedly not able to take up proper investigation and many cases are remaining either as ‘untraced’ or ‘under investigation’ and are finally ‘closed’, with no clues to ascertain identity of the victim. In most cases, victims are women and police say they were sexually assaulted before being killed.Another woman’s body was found at Pahadisharief last Thursday.Aged around 25 years, she was found dead near a hill in the outskirts of Jalpally village, by locals who working there. Police said unidentified assailants had slit her throat. The woman was clad in an orange ‘churidar’ and a burqa was found near her body.Meanwhile, Kushaiguda police have been able to establish identity of the 30-year-old woman found dead at a burial ground. Identified as Kannamma, resident of Malkajgiri, police suspect she was raped and later murdered by assailants.P Santosh Kumar, assistant commissioner of police (ACP), Alwal told Expresso that Kannamma was a daily wage labourer. “We suspect she was having an illegal affair with some person at her work place. After a quarrel with her husband Balaraju, she left the house on November 22,’’ Kumar said.The city has witnessed more than 30 murders in the past two years. The figure includes cases pertaining to unidentified bodies, which have been marked ‘untraced’ in police files, owing to lack of evidence.For instance, identity of a woman’s body found stuffed in a suitcase at Mehdipatnam in August, still remains a mystery. Police teams went to various parts of the state but could not ascertain her identity. Humayunnagar police inspector P Madhukar Swamy, who is investigating the case told Expresso that they could not trace any clue in the case. At the time when the body was found, the victim was clad in a maroon sari and a blue ink-like substance was poured on her to conceal her identity.  latest incidents 

August 3, 2010- A young woman’s body found stuffed in a suitcase near Mehdipatnam bus stand. Case still pending 

May 24, 2010- Bowenpally police found an unidentified woman’s decomposed body from military defence area. No leads in the case.

May 31, 2010- Dead body of an unidentified woman found near the electric sub-station at Shamshabad 
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