MUMBAI/NAGPUR: A 22-year-old Nagpur woman was killed by two youths in Ambernath on Monday, her body packed into a suitcase and dumped near Belagavi in Karnataka. The youths have also confessed to having raped her. The case is jointly being investigated by police from Maharashtra and Karnataka.The accused, who have been arrested, have been identified as Niklesh Patil (24) and Akshay Valode (25). Police said Patil is also a Nagpur resident while Valode is from Ambernath. The woman is the daughter of an assistant sub-inspector posted at the Nagpur police HQ. Both she and Patil are engineers and knew each other. After graduating from a Nagpur college, the woman was interning with an IT firm in Andheri . “She had taken a flat on rent in Vikhroli . I saw her off in Mumbai on August 15,” her father told TOI.Sunil Patil, assistant police commissioner of Ambernath division, said, “The accused have been booked under section 376 (2)(g) (gang rape), 302 ( murder ), 201 (destroying evidence), and 34 (common intention) of IPC. We are also looking into the role of Patil’s friend Nilesh Khobragade (38) in whose car the woman’s body was transported. Four different teams have been formed to probe the case.”After speaking to police from Ambernath and Belagavi, as well as friends of the victim, TOI pieced the sordid tale together. On Sunday, Patil and Khobragade drove down from Nagpur to Pune in the latter’s car. The woman too was in Pune to visit a friend. It is not exactly known where she met Patil. The woman, Patil and Khobragade then left for Mumbai and late in the night, stopped at Valode’s residence in Ambernath (E). Police sources said Patil and Valode reportedly raped the woman there while Khobragade was allegedly not present. When the woman threatened to go to the police, one of them gagged her and the other throttled her, leading to her death.Then, they packed her body in a suitcase and when Khobragade returned, they decided to leave for Goa in his car. Khobragade was allegedly in the dark about the rape and murder. When they reached Belagavi, Patil and Valode dumped the bag into a nullah. On reaching Goa, Khobragade questioned them about the missing bag and the woman. On learning about the rape and murder, he threatened to go to the police if they did not surrender. On their way back, Patil and Valode stopped at Ratnagiri and surrendered. Cops from Ratnagiri have registered the case and may shift it to Ambernath division’s Shivaji Nagar police station.“The bag was found about 17km from Belagavi,” said inspector Ramesh Gokak of Kakati police station in whose jurisdiction the body was found.At the time of going to the press, police officials from Ratnagiri and Ambernath were headed to the spot with the accused who are under transit remand. The girl’s father had also reached the spot. “I have not been handed over the body as it is still inside the bag,” he told TOI.The Ambernath police on Wednesday conducted a panchnama of Valode’s flat and recovered CCTV footage. A forensic team also collected evidence.The flat where Patil lives with his family in Nagpur was locked on Wednesday while at the building where Khobragade allegedly lives, residents denied knowing anyone by that name.