The suspected 'corpse-smuggler' was found with 16 skulls in his luggage Credit: Riau Images/ Barcroft Images
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Carrion Luggage!........................
Posted on 11/30/2018 8:43:44 AM PST by Red Badger
Indian police are investigating a skeleton smuggling gang after a man was caught with skulls and bones of 50 different people on a train.
Government Railway Police arrested the suspected “corpse smuggler” at Chapra railway station in India’s eastern state of Bihar.
The arrested man, identified as Sanjay Prasad, was carrying 16 human skulls and 34 skeletal remains in his luggage and was travelling on the Balia-Sealdah Express to Kolkata, from where police said he was heading for the border to Bhutan.
Police suspect that the skeletons, which according to the suspect were brought from Balia in Uttar Pradesh, were then meant to be smuggled to China via Bhutan, reported the Times of India.
Mr Prasad was part of a gang who supplied human skeletons to “tantrics and occultists” in the Himalayan Kingdom, police said. They also claimed there was “huge demand for skeletons among medical students in China”.
He has been sent to jail while further investigation were on to trace his accomplices, said deputy superintendent of police Mohammad Tanvir.
It was unclear how Mr Prasad was alleged to have obtained the skeletal remains. While grave-robbing in poor areas is not unheard of, it usually takes place in Muslim or Christian communities, as Hindus favour cremation.
Morgue and crematorium workers, however, could potentially be bribed to perform swaps in which relatives are given substitute ashes while bodies are sold off, police said.
Mr Prasad was detained as during a routine inspection against liquor smuggling across state lines, “officers spotted suspicious movement of the suspect. He was detained and his bag opened,” said Station House Officer Suman Prasad Singh.
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The suspected 'corpse-smuggler' was found with 16 skulls in his luggage Credit: Riau Images/ Barcroft Images
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Carrion Luggage!........................
His skeletons are out of the bag now.
REALLY, JUST TOO FUNNY FOR FIRST THING IN THE MORNING.
What a bone head.
No bones about it!....................
LOL
There is market out there for old bones and skeletons?
For what purpose?
Nancy Pelosi “Love” Dolls
I loved that movie!...............
Two markets actually.
Medical schools and Voodoo types................
“Bring out your dead!”
“... he was heading to the border...” with ‘heads”
I’m just impressed he was able to fit all that in his luggage. This guy is one hell of a packer. The secret is probably in how he folds them.
And feet and legs and...................
Another destructive act committed in the world, and the Chinese involved. What a complete surprise.
When there’s a story involving skulls & bones, I hear the sound of xylophones.
Don’t know why.
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