18 May,2026 09:55 PM IST | Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar | mid-day online correspondent
Two accused arrested in Maharashtra in Bihar suitcase murder case (Representational image)
Two persons were arrested in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in connection with the murder of a couple and their two children, whose mutilated body parts were found stuffed in a suitcase on the banks of a river in Bihar last week, police said on Monday, reported the PTI.
The police on Saturday, May 16, arrested the accused, Deepak Devisingh Rajput (27), and Gautam Karampal Gupta (22), from the Jadhavadi area late on Saturday night, the news agency reported.
An official said, "Mutilated body parts were found inside two suitcases on the banks of the Durgawati River in Kaimur district of Bihar on May 10."
As per the official release from the police officials, following the probe, the accused allegedly killed a couple and their two children by slitting their throats and dismembering the body parts and stuffing them in suitcases before throwing them away at different locations, as per PTI.
The Bihar police informed the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar counterparts about the whereabouts of the absconding suspects involved in the killings, and a team was sent to track down the duo, the official statement added.
The arrested accused were produced in a local court, which granted transit remand, and the Bihar police team took them into custody on Sunday.
Earlier, on May 14, a 22-year-old man died after he was allegedly brutally assaulted in Mumbai's Mahim area, an official said, adding that five people were held in the matter so far.
The deceased was also attacked with a sharp weapon.
"Six suspects were booked in the matter, out of which five have been arrested, and efforts to trace and nab the remaining accused were underway," the police official said.
According to the police, following the incident, the Mahim Police Station has registered a murder case after the man died following an assault near the gate of S.L. Raheja Hospital area early on Thursday morning.
The incident took place at around 5:30 am after a verbal argument reportedly broke out between the deceased and one of the accused persons, police said.
(With inputs from PTI)
