Murder dressed up as “crispy chicken”? Unpacking the disturbing claim about an Indian man and his girlfriend

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A gruesome claim swept across social media that a young man in India had murdered his girlfriend and turned her body parts into “crispy chicken.” The graphic story spread quickly, feeding on shock and outrage. Fact Crescendo dug in to separate fact from fiction, and our findings follow below.

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What the posts claimed

The viral posts claimed that a murder soaked in unimaginable cruelty had been reported from India. Police found what looked like fried meat inside a bag, but suspicion arose that it was not a type of meat people normally eat, and investigation revealed the horrifying truth: these were the body parts of a woman. A man, believing his girlfriend had been unfaithful, killed her.

Had it ended there, it might have been just another tragic case. But it did not stop there. He allegedly cut her body into small pieces, coated them in flour, and deep-fried them in hot oil like fritters. Perhaps, after all that, he could not bring himself to eat it, so he packed it into a bag and left. They say that love carries on even in death, but now it seems we have to say that boundless love apparently cooks up crispy chicken.

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Fact-Check:

Had such an incident genuinely occurred in India, it should have been confirmed through Indian mainstream media and credible official sources. The social media post also included a photograph purportedly related to the incident. We therefore used both that image and relevant keywords to search whether Indian mainstream media had reported any such event.

We identified that this incident occurred on Masjid Street in the Guduvancheri area, outside Chennai city limits, in Tamil Nadu, India, and that it had indeed been reported by Indian media (here).

The suspects: a married couple, not a boyfriend

Although the posts claimed that the murder was carried out by a boyfriend, the primary suspects are in fact a married couple, and the motive behind the killing has not been established.

According to mainstream media reports, the victim was 38-year-old Hayathun Nisha, a native of Jagatsinghpur, Odisha, who had been living apart from her husband while working at a private firm in Chennai. She had a 19-year-old son. The primary suspects are a married couple who shared the same rented accommodation with her, identified as Manik Uddin Laskar of Assam and Bhagyabati Majhi of Odisha. The exact motive for the killing has not yet been officially disclosed. Further details are available here and here.

What was really found on the train

While the post claims that police found fried meat inside a bag, the actual incident reported by Indian media indicates that police recovered 18 dismembered, decomposing human body parts aboard a train. At around 10:00 p.m. on August 3, 2026, a man and a woman were seen carrying a red trolley bag onto the Tamil Nadu Express (Train No. 12621), bound for New Delhi from Platform 4 of Chennai Central Railway Station, and leaving it in the rear general compartment before disembarking and fleeing. When the train reached Agra Cantonment Railway Station in Uttar Pradesh at around 5:00 a.m. on August 5, 2026, passengers alerted railway authorities after noticing a foul odour and blood seeping from the bag. When the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and the Government Railway Police (GRP) opened it, media reports state that they found 18 dismembered, decomposing human body parts, minus the head. More details are available here.

While the social media post claims that police found what appeared to be fried meat inside the bag, officially confirmed information from Indian mainstream media shows that although 18 body parts were indeed found inside the bag, they were not discovered fried in any way.

The remains recovered from a biryani pot

Police from Agra and Tamil Nadu jointly reviewed more than 350 CCTV cameras across railway stations to identify the individuals who had brought the bag, tracing the suspects to a nearby train and an auto-rickshaw that took them to the Guduvancheri area outside Chennai. On Friday, August 21, 2026, police teams raided the suspects’ rented residence on Masjid Street in Guduvancheri, but found the house locked and the suspects already fled. A search of the house led police to recover the remaining body parts of the deceased woman, including her head, inside a large pot of the kind typically used to cook biryani. Additional details are available here and here.

Where the “crispy chicken” claim came from

Police confirmed that the suspects had dismembered the body, discarded part of it on the train, and coated the remaining parts with flour and vegetables before storing them in a large pot at the house, steps taken purely to mask the odour of decomposition and destroy evidence. It was this flour-coating that social media falsely branded as “crispy chicken.” In truth, the suspects had no purpose beyond controlling the smell and concealing evidence. And while social media claimed that the killers had intended to eat the remains before changing their minds and disposing of them in a bag, police investigations uncovered no evidence of any such intent; this was solely an attempt to destroy the body and the evidence after the murder.

Police reject the cooking claim

Police have denied reports claiming that the suspects cooked the body parts or attempted to use them to prepare biryani. Added details are available here.

The hunt for the suspects

Mobile phone signal tracking revealed that both suspects had fled to Odisha. Three special Tamil Nadu police teams have already been dispatched to Odisha and Assam and are currently conducting operations to apprehend them.

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Conclusion:

Our fact-check finds that the social media claim of an Indian man murdering his girlfriend and turning her body parts into “crispy chicken” is misleading. While it is portrayed as a killing committed by a boyfriend, the real incident behind the post shows that police have identified a married couple as the primary suspects. The deceased woman had been living in the same house as them, and police have not yet officially disclosed the exact motive for the murder.

While the post claims that police found what looked like fried meat inside a bag, what was actually recovered from the train were 18 dismembered, decomposing human body parts. Contrary to the post’s claim that the killers fried the body parts in oil after coating them in flour, the suspects fried nothing; they merely coated the remains with flour and vegetables and placed them in a large biryani pot, solely to mask the odour of decomposition and conceal evidence. And while claims circulated that the killers had intended to eat the remains before changing their minds and disposing of them in a bag, police investigations found no evidence of any such intent; this was simply an attempt to destroy the body and the evidence after the murder.