India, March 16 -- The human skull found inside an abandoned suitcase along the Mumbai-Ahemdabad highway near Mandvi belonged to Utpala Hippargi, a woman from West Bengal who was murdered by her husband after an altercation regarding the surname of her son from a previous marriage, officers from the Mira-Bhayander-Vasai-Virar (MBVV) crime branch told Hindustan Times.

Harish Hippargi, 49, the woman's husband, confessed to killing and decapitating her and dumping her body near the railway tracks after he was arrested on Saturday, the officers said.

"We have handed over Hippargi to the Mandvi police and he will be produced in court on Sunday," said Avinash Ambure, deputy commissioner of police (crime).

The Mandvi police in Virar East had ...