Mumbai: A 20-year-old model named Mansi Dixit has allegedly been stabbed to death by her friend Muzammil Sayyed in India's financial capital.
The couple had a fight which turned ugly and Sayyed ended up killing the girl in a fit of rage, reported Mumbai Mirror.
According to the police, they had received information that an abandoned suitcase was lying on a backroad in Malad, following which they reached the spot and opened it. Inside the suitcase, they found the body of the victim with head injuries.
The police said they started investigating the matter immediately. Through CCTV footage, they traced the car that had dropped the bag on the roadside and inquired with the owner, which later revealed the identity of the deceased woman.
"We have arrested her friend Sayed who was with her on Monday. During a heated argument, he killed her in a fit of rage. Sayed hit Dixit with a sharp object. She succumbed to head injuries," said a police officer.
"Sayed then stuffed her body in a suitcase and dumped it on a road in Malad. We have arrested him for murder, and our probing to ascertain the exact motive behind the argument," said Sangramsingh Nishandar, Deputy Commissioner of Police, zone 11.