Mumbai: Student murders an aspiring model; dumps body in a travel bag MUMBAI: The body of a 20-year-old model was found stuffed in a travel bag in a bush near Mindspace, Malad (West), on Monday. Within four hours of getting a call from a person who spotted the bag, the police arrested a second-year college student who lives in Millat Nagar, Andheri (West), for Mansii Dixit’s murder. The student, Muzzamal Sayyed (19), told the police Dixit was in his flat when they had a scuffle and he hit her with a stool, inadvertently killing her.Dixit hailed from Kota, Rajasthan , and had been living in Andheri (West) for six months. The police said Sayyed had befriended her through a common friend during a get-together.The Bangur Nagar police station received a call about the bag around 3pm. “Two policemen rushed to the spot and opened the traveler’s bag. Dixit’s face was strapped with strings and her body was wrapped in cushion, with a bedsheet rolled over,” said a police officer.Almost immediately, DCP (Zone XI) Sangramsinh Nishandar formed a team, which checked footage from CCTV cameras near the spot where the bag was found. After looking at several vehicles, the team saw a cab stopping at the spot and a youngster getting out of it with a traveler’s bag. The team followed the cab’s CCTV trail (from cameras installed on roads) and found Sayyed leaving it after travelling a few kilometers.CCTV footage then showed Sayyed taking an autorickshaw. After sometime, he alights from it. “He then hires another cab to go to his Andheri residence. We found him alighting from the cab at Oshiwara. We managed to get details of the cab driver and with his help managed to locate the building where Sayyed stays alone,” said a police officer.<doc-sep>Nineteen-year-old Muzammil Sayyed, who has been arrested by Bangur Nagar police for allegedly murdering his 23-year-old girlfriend Mansi Dixit has told the police that his friendship with Dixit gave him a sense of pride and satisfaction among his friend circle, as according to Sayyed, he had always been bullied since his school days by his peers. Sayyed told the police that he is remorseful for his actions. “Sayyed says that his peer group used to tease him and gave him a feeling that nothing good can happen to Sayyed and that no girl would ever become his friend. When Mansi came in Sayyed’s life, this gave him a perfect opportunity to show his friends and fellow mates. Dixit and Sayyed were known to each other for more than three months. Sayyed had later decided to take a step forward in the friendship with Dixit, which the latter was not ready for,” said a police officer requesting anonymity. The police is still figuring out the motive behind the murder as Sayyed is not cooperating in the probe and his changing his statements frequently. “The accused says he is remorseful for what he did. We are probing what exactly transpired that day when Sayyed murdered Dixit” the officer added. Dixit who was struggling to get a debut in an entertainment web series is said to be extremely professional by her colleagues and other workmates. “Dixit worked with me for more than three portfolio photoshoot and her way of working was very professional and ethical. We never sensed anything suspicious from her gestures and we are still in a state of shock and are finding it difficult to come to terms that she is no more.” said a model photographer while speaking to DNA.<doc-sep>MUMBAI: It was an alertcabbie who helped police nab college student Syed Hasan (19) for allegedly murdering model Mansii Dixit (20).The Ola driver told police that he got suspicious when he helped Hasan lift a bag, which was later found to be containing Dixit’s body. He said he felt the load to be uneven while putting it in the car’s trunk.Hasan had taken the cab from Al-Ohad building in Millat Nagar Andheri (West), where Dixit, a model from Rajasthan , was killed. The driver said Hasan changed his destination at least thrice on the Ola app, before deciding to alight at Mindspace, Malad.After Hasan got off, the driver waited to watch his next move. When he saw Hasan dump the bag, the driver dialled 100 (police control room) twice. Tracking CCTV footage, police then zeroed in on Hasan within four hours. He was caught at his Al-Ohad flat “trying to destroy evidence”, said a police officer.Police said the motive of the killing was not yet clear. Hasan has claimed that it was his first meeting with Dixit. He told the police that he had come to Mumbai from Hyderabad only a week ago, along with two cousins. The Al-Ohad flat is owned by his father, who is in the merchant navy. The police have seized a blood-soaked bedsheet and the stool Hasan allegedly used to kill Dixit. Police are probing if he had met Dixit on a dating app.<doc-sep>
A 20-year-old student was arrested on Monday for the murder of an aspiring model. The victim was identified as Mansi Dixit. Initial investigations suggest Dixit was murdered by the accused, Muzammil Sayyed, who allegedly strangled her, stuffed her body in a suitcase and then dumped it in Malad. Police arrested Sayyed on Monday evening. According to the Bangur Nagar police, 20-year-old Dixit was from Rajasthan and had come to Mumbai to become a model. The police believe Dixit met Sayyed, a student, on the internet. The two had met at Sayyed’s apartment in Andheri on Monday afternoon and after an argument, Sayyed allegedly hit Dixit with a blunt object and then strangled her to death. “The accused then stuffed the body in a suitcase and hailed a private cab from Andheri to Malad. He then dumped the body near Mindspace, in the cover of mangroves and fled from the spot,” said an officer, requesting anonymity. This happened between 3pm and 4pm. The police were alerted to Dixit’s murder by the driver of the cab that Sayyed had hired. The driver saw Sayyed dumping the bag and leaving the spot in a rickshaw. He then called the police to report Sayyed’s actions. The police reached the spot within minutes and found Dixit’s body in the abandoned suitcase. Sources said the rope that was used to strangle her was intact around her neck. Using CCTV footage, the police traced the rickshaw that Sayyed had hailed and were able to arrest him. Deputy commissioner of police Sangramsinh Nishandar, zone XI, said, “We have lodged a first information report (FIR) under murder sections of the Indian Penal Code and have arrested the accused.” Sayyed will be produced before a metropolitan court on Tuesday. The police said Sayyed has confessed to murdering Dixit. Dixit’s body has been sent for an autopsy.