A man in Punjab killed his female friend and got her face tattooed on his chest

The 35-year-old accused has now been taken into police custody in Bathinda, Punjab.

A shocker from Punjab has made the headlines. A man named Prince Kumar, 35, killed his female friend and then got her face tattooed on his chest. He has now been detained by the police in Bathinda. Investigators in the case have recovered a suitcase, the knife believed to have been used to murder the woman and the car that was used to move the body.

Police describe the alleged murder of the woman as a “crime of passion.”

On Friday, the district police of Punjab arrested the accused Prince Kumar in connection with the killing of his female friend. His arrest comes two days after the semi-burnt body of a 22-year-old woman was discoveredinside a suitcase near Bathinda, Punjab. It has also been revealed that after the killing, which they described as a “crime of passion,” the accused got a photo of himself with the woman tattooed on his chest. Investigators have recovered a suitcase, which also contains the knife believed to be used in the killing and the car that moved the victim’s body.

More on the chilling murder of the woman in Punjab.

The victim, 22, was from Baghapurana in neighbouring Moga district and had been living in Bathinda. The accused is a 35-year-old unemployed man who was reportedly dealing with substance abuse. The accused allegedly stabbed the woman to death in the early hours of February 9 at his house in the Surkhpeer area, as earlier reports suggested. Police said that Prince kept her body at his house for two days. He then tried to burn it before placing it inside a suitcase. On the intervening night of February 10-11, he allegedly threw the remains in fields near BehmanDiwana village along the Bathinda-Fazilka national highway. The exact motive of the murder is still not ascertained. The senior superintendent of police (SSP) said Prince lived alone and no one else was involved. Police said that after the killing, Prince got a photo of himself with the woman tattooed on his chest. As per sources, the woman’s body had four to five deep stab wounds.

The breakthrough in the case came from CCTV footage from the Parasram Nagar area, which showed the victim together with Prince on February 7. This was the last time she was seen alive. Technical examination of her phone records led police to question 15 suspects. They later identified him as the accused. The SSP said the woman’s personal life was filled with struggles. She had married against her parents’ wishes and was living separately from both her husband and the accused when she died. Her family has not yet come forward to claim the body.