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Virar: Suitcase murder solved within 24 hours

The contact number on a jewellery pouch, found with the severed head of a woman inside a suitcase in the Virar jungle, helped Crime Branch Unit 3 to solve a murder mystery within 24 hours and nab the victim’s husband. Read more.