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New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) A young woman’s disfigured and half-decomposed body, packed in an old metal trunk by her killer and parcelled from Delhi to Kishangarh area of Ajmer in Rajasthan on April 2, is lying unidentified in a morgue as the two families that saw it said it was not of their missing kin, police said Monday.

Mystery still surrounds the murder of the woman, believed to be around 22 to 25 years. The face was disfigured with acid by the murderer who also stabbed the woman about a dozen times, said a senior police officer. The body is lying in the Yagya Narayan Hospital in Kishangarh area.

“It’s tough to recognise the body of the girl. It was a cold-blooded murder,” said the officer.

Rajasthan and Delhi Police are jointly investigating the case.

Police said that closed-circuit television camera footage at the Milap Transport Company - from where the killer parcelled the body around around 2.30 p.m. on April 2 — has blurred footage showing a rickshaw-puller accompanied by another man bringing the big parcel to the office, located in central Delhi’s Pili Kothi in Lahori Gate area.

“It is not the work of a professional. The killer had no four-wheeler and he committed this gruesome crime all alone. The killer used a rickshaw to carry it,” said a source investigating the case.

Giving reasons for the line of investigation, the source said: “If he was a professional, he could have disposed of the body in some isolated place. Secondly, the killer was well aware that many transport companies were operating in the area and he could easily dispose it through courier.”

The source said the killer is either a trader or has worked in a transport company. “He is also somehow related to Kishangarh area,” said a source.

The parcel reached Ajmer on April 3 but as nobody claimed it the cargo company kept it in their godown. The staff of Milap’s Ajmer office discovered the body on April 7 after it began to putrefy and give off stench.

The body was handed over to the police in Kishangarh and a case was registered in Madanganj police station.

“The girl might have been killed on April 1 night somewhere in Delhi and then couriered on April 2,” said the officer.

The police said that cargo companies did not enquire much about the person sending the body as the parcel had ’self’ written on it.

“The staff, seeing that the person sending the parcel would receive it himself, did not insist on payments or address. They did not verify the receiver’s name, which was given as Bittoo,” said the source, adding, “The killer told the staff that the Rs.185 fee would be paid by him in Ajmer.”

The police are checking the data of missing girls aged between 18 and 30 across the Delhi and the National Capital Region and are trying to establish contact with their families.

“We have alerted all the police stations across NCR regarding this. The identity of the girl is important to crack the case,” said the source.

Rajasthan Police are taking the help of North Delhi police and the Crime Branch in tracing the rickshaw puller to reach to killer and have also made a sketch of the rickshaw puller.