Mumbai: A local court on Tuesday remands a youth into police custody for a week for allegedly killing a model, whose body was found in a suitcase in an isolated spot in Mumbai's western suburb of Malad on Monday. (Pic-Twitter)
Model Mansi Dixit was in her early 20's and an aspiring actress. Police said, the model went to meet the accused Muzammil Syed, a 19-year-old student, at his relative's home. After an heated argument, he allegedly killed her and packed her body in a suitcase. He then called a cab and went to a desolate road in Malad where he dumped the suitcase.
The cab driver who alerted the police after he felt that there was something suspicious about the manner in which the suitcase was dumped. Police then found Ms Dixit's body stuffed in the suitcase near Mindspace, a commercial hub in Malad area of Suburban Mumbai and arrested Muzammil Syed within an hour.