Twenty seven-year-old Zico Misquitta, arrested for allegedly murdering his girlfriend Carol Pinky Misquitta, had preplanned the crime and was carrying a knife with him when he went to meet her, said an officer privy to the investigation. Zico and his accomplice Kumar Babu Devendran brutally stabbed Carol multiple times all over her body in the early hours of January 25.

Zico was supposed to get married to a girl and Carol, who had just broken up with him, was opposing this, said an officer, while explaining the motive for the crime. The investigating team told mid-day that Carol’s head was only attached to her body by a thin layer of muscle. “It seems her wind pipe was also chopped by the sharp-edged weapon,” said an officer.