The body of 22-year-old Mansi Dixit, who was a model by profession, was found stuffed in a bag at Malad’s Bangur Nagar on Monday. Bangur Nagar police were able to arrest the accused in less than three hours of the body being found.
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Dixit who hails from Rajasthan, use to reside in Andheri. According to the police, the deceased came in contact with the accused Muzzamil Sayyed who was a student, on the internet and became friends. On Monday afternoon, the two had met at Muzzamil's apartment in Andheri where after an argument, Sayyed hit Dixit with a blunt object and then strangled her to death. After murdering Dixit, Sayyed stuffed her body in a suitcase and then dumped it in Malad.
According to the police official, the accused got into a private cab from Andheri to Malad and then dumped the body near Mindspace, in the cover of mangroves and fled from the spot.
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The cab driver that Sayyed had hired saw him dumping the bag and leaving the spot in a rickshaw. He then immediately called the police to report on Sayyed's actions. Likewise, police reached the spot within minutes and found Dixit's body in the abandoned suitcase.
With the help of CCTV footage, the police traced the rickshaw that Sayyed had hailed and was able to arrest him. Deputy commissioner of police Sangramsinh Nishandar, zone XI, said that they have lodged a first information report (FIR) under murder sections of the Indian Penal Code and have arrested the accused as well. Police have sent Dixit's body to Siddharth hospital for post-mortem.
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