India, June 7 -- Surya Nagar police have arrested seven men in connection with the murder of a 17-year-old girl, whose body was found stuffed in a blue suitcase near the old Chandapura railway bridge in Bengaluru's Anekal taluk on May 21. The case, which had gripped local residents with horror, has now been cracked with arrests made from Bihar.

The suitcase, abandoned by the side of the Bengaluru-Hosur National Highway, was discovered by railway police. Upon inspection, they alerted the Surya Nagar police, under whose jurisdiction the crime scene fell. When officers opened the bag, they found the girl's body, folded and crammed tightly inside, triggering widespread shock.

The body was preserved in a private hospital while efforts to ide...