On the evening of June 8, a passenger train that runs daily from Nagda railway station in Ujjain to Ambedkar Nagar in Indore was pulled into the Indore yard for routine cleaning. Rinku Thakur, a railway cleaner, sneaks into the general compartment of the train, hoping to finish the day's work quickly. But that day, as soon as he stepped inside, he smelled a foul odor. Gently, he followed his sense of smell. He took a few steps and saw blood stains. Then, a trolley bag and a sack. Inside both were the butchered remains of a human body without arms and legs.
Less than 48 hours later, at Rishikesh railway station, more than 1,100 km away, yard cleaners boarded the Yognagari Express, which runs between the holy city and Lakshmibai Nagar, a station on the outskirts of Indore. Is. Like Thakur two days earlier, his first red flag that something was wrong was the stench of a rotting body. The source, they found, was a sack, hidden in the passage between two sleeper coaches – S1 and S2. Inside the sack was a polythene bag. Inside the bag were four severed body parts – two arms and two legs. The words “My Bean” and “Gopal Bhai” were tattooed on one arm.
Thus began an investigation that lasted two weeks, spanned two states and led to the arrest of 50-year-old Kamlesh Karmi on Sunday. His guilt was allegedly proven by the testimony of his hearing and speech-impaired wife, who witnessed him attempting to rape, and then murder and then butcher the body of Mira Damour, 33, from Ren Mao. Seen doing it.
Investigation
On June 10, Dehradun Government Railway Police (GRP) Sub-Inspector Anand Giri made the first phone call to his counterpart in Indore, Town Inspector Sanjay Shukla. Having gone very little, his first thought was to speak to the railway police authorities at Indore, where the train had come from. Immediately, Shukla informs Gary about the dead body found on June 8. Everything seemed fine. The body in Indore had no arms and legs. In Rishikesh, there were only those organs in a polythene bag.
The bottom line is that Indore GRP finally had something – a tattoo on his arm.
Shukla said the Indore GRP began searching hours of CCTV footage from railway stations in Madhya Pradesh, from Nagda to Mahu, but made little progress. After that, they asked police stations in the state to provide details of missing women, especially women with my name. “We found 39 cases of missing women. But there was one with her name Meera and her brother's name Gopal on her arm. She was identified as 33-year-old Meera Denmore from Renmao village in Ratlam. , who went missing on June 6,” Shukla said.
Damour's husband Bhanwar Lal, a truck driver, said Meera had left home on June 6 after an argument between the couple. “I came home late on June 5 and she started fighting with me. He abused me in front of our 15 and 12 year old daughters and I slapped him. She threatened to break all ties with me, and on June 6 she left,” she said.
Lal first thought he had left Meera's home village of Ren Mao where he lives in a rented house at a relative's house. “But I couldn't find her anywhere. I informed the Ratlam police on June 6, as she never goes anywhere like this. Her phone was switched off,” Lal said.
According to one version of events so far by investigators, on June 6, Damore reached the Ujjain railway station on the evening of June 6, and was waiting for a train to Mathura. “It is not clear why Damoor went to Ujjain, which is more than 60 km away. He may have traveled there by train, but we are not clear why,” said an investigator.
At the Ujjain railway station, he is spotted by Kamlesh, who lives in a shack on the outskirts of the premises. “She looked worried, and he asked her where she wanted to go. She told him that she wanted to go to Mathura, and he told her that the train to UPtown would come the next day. Soon. It was about to get dark, and he told her that instead of the railway station, which was not safe, she should stay with him and his wife Aarti,” said a police officer.
He spends the night at their house, comforted by the presence of Karmi's wife Aarti, who is both hearing and speech impaired. “On June 7, she was given breakfast by Karmi, after which she immediately felt drowsy, and he tried to rape her. She started shouting loudly, asking him what he had fed her, and started pushing her away. Kamlesh hit her on the face with an iron rod, after which she was unconscious, and then he strangled her. His wife tried to protest, but he Threaten dire consequences.” The said officer said.
In the hours that followed, Karmi devised a plan to dispose of the body. He bought a knife for the butcher. ₹300 from a shop nearby. Around midnight, he started cutting up the carcass and stuffing it into three bags. “He did this till 4 am. At 6 am, he left his house to carry out part two of his plan,” said another officer.
Karmi's hut is on the outskirts of the Ujjain railway station where trains halt, waiting for signal clearance. At 10 am on June 8, as the passenger train from Nagada to Dr. Ambedkar Nagar stopped at the spot, Karmi hurried towards the train, and put two bags inside. “He wanted to keep the third bag but the train started suddenly. He was in the train when it happened, and he had to walk a short distance to Ujjain railway station and then return home,” said Sanjay Shukla, the investigating officer in the case.
They waited for six hours, when on the evening of June 8, the Yognagari Express stopped at the very spot near their hut. Karmi quickly went inside and put the last bag in the nearest bin. He then returned home and took a bath, his horrified wife unable to say anything,'' added Shukla.
How did the case crack?
On June 7, when Lal filed a missing persons complaint in Renmau, the Ratlam police made a phone call to his mobile phone. At this point, the phone number was on, and the woman's voice on the other end of the line told the officer that she was in Mathura, and did not want to speak to anyone.
For a while, there was little progress. Forty people were detained between June 13 and June 22, but had little information to give. Then on June 22, when the police tracked Meera Damore's mobile phone, they found that a new SIM card had been placed in it in Ujjain. That same day, a swarm of officials arrived at the shack in Ujjain, and arrested the 50-year-old. “When we arrived, Aarti was panicking, trying to communicate in sign language,” said another officer.
The police then brought in sign language expert Gyanendra Purohit and his wife Monika Purohit who revealed a horrifying story. Aarti Kumari tells them that she is originally from a village in Odisha, where Karmi bought her — it is not clear when — and forcibly married her. She described her husband as cruel and his profession as stealing from trains and railway stations. “He told us that he brought Meera home on June 6. On June 7, when she went out, Karam mixed something in Meera's milk. He tried to rape Meera, who resisted. Kumari shot him. Saw Meera being strangled and tried to intervene, but he also hit her,'' the officer said.
That night, as Kumari watched, he chopped up Meera's body parts and stuffed them in bags. Karmi has now been arrested under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, and is in GRP remand for four days.
Investigating officer Shukla said, “We are now checking whether any other women have gone missing from the area. Investigation is on.”
On Sunday, Bhanwar Lal, Meera's husband, traveled to Indore and identified her body, but said it would be returned after a full forensic examination. “I cursed when I hit her. I didn't know that the next time I saw her, she'd be torn to pieces like that. Now all I want is to take her home and be so brutal.” Give him a peaceful burial after death.