Human head found near Bengaluru cricket ground, body near railway tracks

It was a puzzle most macabre.

On Tuesday night, Bengaluru Police found a headless body on railway tracks.

On Wednesday morning they found a human head near a cricket playground, 200 metres away.

In between, there were stray dogs.

Police suspect the dogs dragged the head from the tracks to the ground, and left a grisly present – disfigured and almost impossible for police to identify – for locals out for their morning walk.

So whose was the body?

The body was that of Vishwanath, a 25-year-old man from Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district.

Vishwanath moved to Bengaluru in 2024 and worked for an e-commerce delivery platform.

Police have said he died after being hit by a train near Baiyappanahalli sometime between 8 and 9 pm on Tuesday. The body – sans the head – was sent for a post-mortem examination. And now that the head has been recovered and the identity confirmed, Vishwanath’s parents have been informed, the police said.