Pregnant woman, child found dead in Greater Noida's Dadri

GREATER NOIDA: The body of a pregnant woman with clothes in tatters was found near Chithera bypass under Dadri police station on Sunday morning. Deputy superintendent of police, Dadri, Anurag Singh, said the body was partially burnt. The body of a nine-month-old infant was also recovered a few metres from the spot.
This brought the number of unidentified bodies recovered from across the district in the last three months to 15, including 10 of women.Except two in Noida, the rest of the bodies were all found in Greater Noida. Most of the bodies of women were found partially burnt with clothes torn. Two were pregnant.
Police believe the deceased was 30 years old. The body was spotted by a passerby who informed police.
According to the police, an attempt was made to burn the woman's body after she was killed. "Her face was burnt to conceal her identity. Some other parts were also burnt. Preliminary investigation suggests she was murdered elsewhere and her body dumped in Dadri," Singh said.
"About 800 metres from the spot, we also found the body of a nine-month-old infant. We've sent both bodies for autopsy," Singh added.
He said police has evidence the two were related. "We also found two bags near the spot where the body of the infant was found. They contained clothes belonging to a woman and an infant. We assume they belonged to the deceased," he added.
Police said they will keep the bodies in a mortuary for 72 hours for claimants, before cremating them.
The morbid sequence of unidentified bodies turning up across the district began on December 24, 2014, when a woman was found shot dead in a park near Sector 55. She was eight months into her pregnancy. The case has left district police in a tizzy.
"The situation is grim. It appears criminals are dumping these bodies in the district. We are finding it difficult to identify the bodies as family members have not registered missing information with the police," Singh said.
Experts said Greater Noida's tag of 'ghost city' is behind the rampant crime, especially the current sequence of recovery of unidentified bodies. "Greater Noida was notified in 1991, covering 38,000 hectares and comprising of 124 villages. Its Master Plan-2011 was prepared in 1992. And yet, even after 24 years, it has failed to attract a resident population, which stands at a mere three lakh now."
With no headway in the mysterious case, Dadri police station in-charge B P Malik faced the heat and has been transferred to the police lines. Anil Kumar has been transferred from crime branch and appointed as replacement.