LUCKNOW, May 20 -- The Government Railway Police (GRP) identified the headless woman whose dismembered body was found inside a train coach at Gomti Nagar railway station earlier this week, late on Tuesday evening. Investigators are now probing the case from a possible hate killing angle.

Police said the victim was a resident of Kushinagar district and was identified with the help of CCTV footage, mobile surveillance and other electronic evidence gathered during the investigation.

The woman's mutilated body was recovered on May 17 from the S-1 sleeper coach of the Chhapra-Gomti Nagar Express after railway staff found a suspicious box left unattended inside the compartment. The body had been chopped into five pieces, with the torso packed...