Inside 24 hours of discovering a girl’s severed head at a rubbish dump in south Kolkata’s Tollygunge space, her brother-in-law was arrested for allegedly killing her, PTI reported citing police on Saturday.
The brother-in-law, recognized as Atiur Rahman Laskar, had allegedly determined to kill her as she rejected his advances. Kolkata Police arrested him from his native village Basuldanga in South 24 Parganas’ Diamond Harbour.
Laskar, a building employee, reportedly confessed to murdering the girl who had been separated from her husband for 2 years now, police mentioned.
DCP (South Suburban) Bidisha Kalita mentioned throughout a press convention that the girl’s severed head was present in a rubbish dump close to Graham Highway on Friday, and the torso and decrease portion of her physique have been discovered close to a pond within the Regent Park space on Saturday.
The sufferer used to work as a home assist in the Regent Park and used to journey to work day by day with Laskar, who additionally was working in Tollygunge, she added.
The brother-in-law needed to be in a relationship along with her nonetheless, she rejected his advances. This snub infuriated Laskar, the DCP mentioned.
Per week in the past, the sufferer, aged round 35-40 years, started avoiding the brother-in-law which additional angered him. She even blocked his telephone quantity.
“On Thursday night, after she was accomplished with work, he compelled her to accompany him to an under-construction constructing. He strangulated her there after which beheaded her. He minimize the physique in three elements and dumped these,” Kalita mentioned.
Police are additionally investigating the potential involvement of different individuals on this regard.
The restoration of the severed head in that locality despatched chills down the residents’ spines, triggering a worry inside them.
How did cops discover the severed head?
On Friday morning, locals had noticed a plastic bag containing the severed head in a vat on Graham Highway beneath the Golf Inexperienced police station.
Quickly after discovering the physique half, police had despatched it to the MR Bangur Hospital for additional examination, PTI reported.
Investigators from the murder part of Kolkata Police’s Lalbazar headquarters examined all of the out there CCTV digital camera footage from the locality to determine who dumped the severed head there.
Police mentioned that related samples have been recovered from the spot.
The severed head additionally bore damage marks and blood stains, which steered that the homicide came about inside 12 hours of its restoration, a police official mentioned.
Later, investigators additionally deployed a sniffer canine to trace down the supply of the physique half, which led them to a residential condominium round a kilometer away from the Graham Highway vat.
Nonetheless, the investigation couldn’t proceed farther from that spot on the time. Two constables had been posted on the entry gate of the condominium to trace actions of these transferring out and in of the constructing.
(with PTI inputs)
