Case study: The victims

Body parts of both victims were found in two to three different places.

The first victim was found in 10 pieces scattered in Soldier Bazaar. The parts surfaced over a period of three days within a two-kilometre radius of the Aga Khan Jamaatkhana in Garden East. They were wrapped in in a man’s white corduroy jeans and a woman’s cotton shirt with light brown and silver embroidery.

The medico-legal officer said that there was something odd about the arms. “The skin was scraped off,” said MLO Karar Abbasi. “We think that she had a tattoo or someone’s name was written on her arm so the suspect removed it with a sharp object.”

The second victim was found by rag pickers from an empty plot beside a school in Jamshed Town. Her body too was wrapped in plastic bags and the parts were found in two to three different places. The medico-legal officers had said that a sharp object had been used to cut up the body.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 25^th, 2012.