However, it led to them discovering blood flowing out of the luggage and one of the passers-by, 57-year-old cleaner Woo Shin Kwong, reported the matter to the police.

The murdered man was identified as 59-year-old Pakistani national Muhammad Noor, who came from Pakistan to Singapore the previous month to sell tissue paper.

It was deduced that the killer(s) responsible for Muhammad's murder were foreigners and could be staying nearby at Rowell Road, as they were frequently spotted at that area.

One of them, Neeraj Chandna, who co-owned an unnamed lodging house, was approached by police and he identified the two men as his tenants, 43-year-old Rasheed Muhammad and 25-year-old Ramzan Rizwan.

[13] Subsequently, after their arrests, one of the suspects Rasheed led the police to Jalan Kubor Muslim Cemetery, where they recovered a smaller luggage that contained the severed legs of Muhammad and a saw.

[15][16] Subsequently, both Rasheed and Ramzan were remanded for psychiatric assessment and were eventually found fit to plead and stand trial.

[18] The body of Muhammad was later flown back to Pakistan after his family recovered the corpse for burial at their hometown, and the Pakistani High Commission not only rendered assistance to the victim's bereaved kin, they also stated that they would help ensure legal representation for the two suspects in the upcoming murder trial.

[23] The prosecution also produced evidence of the CCTV footages which showed both men buying the saws and luggages they used to dismember and dispose of the corpse.

Based on the men's earlier statements, it was revealed that after dismembering the body, Ramzan first pulled the smaller luggage that contain the legs of Muhammad and threw it at Jalan Kubor Muslim cemetery, before he returned to help Rasheed pull the bigger luggage that contained the upper torso of Muhammad.

That roadside was the same place where the 81-year-old karang guni man Tan Tin Loke discovered it and picked it up without knowing it contained the dead body of Muhammad.

He stated that prior to the killing, he gambled with Muhammad, with whom he was distantly related to, and lost a large sum of money but able to win back about S$200 to S$300.

[28] On 17 February 2017, after a five-day trial, both 28-year-old Ramzan Rizwan and 46-year-old Rasheed Muhammad were found guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced to death by Justice Choo Han Teck.

Justice Choo stated that from the looks of evidence, the dismemberment of Muhammad's corpse was more likely to have been committed by two persons and not the work of a lone killer.

[32] As such, Justice Choo rejected the men's respective defences and recorded a guilty verdict of murder for both Rasheed and Ramzan.

They were not eligible for the alternative sentence of life imprisonment with caning given that the intention to kill was present in the murder offence charged.