Police stated the accused confessed to killing the lady.
Kolkata:
The lady, whose severed head was discovered at a rubbish dump in south Kolkata’s Tollygunge space, was allegedly killed by her brother-in-law as she had snubbed his advances, police stated on Saturday.
Cracking the case inside 24 hours, Kolkata Police arrested the brother-in-law, recognized as Atiur Rahman Laskar, from his native village, Basuldanga, in Diamond Harbour in South 24 Parganas district.
Police claimed that Laskar, a building employee, confessed to killing the lady who was separated from her husband two years in the past.
Whereas the severed head of the lady was present in a rubbish dump close to Graham Street on Friday, the torso and the decrease portion of the physique had been discovered on Saturday beside a pond within the Regent Park space, DCP (South Suburban) Bidisha Kalita informed a press convention.
The lady, who labored as a home assist in the Regent Park space, used to commute to work on daily basis alongside along with her brother-in-law who additionally used to work in Tollygunge, she stated.
Laskar wished a relationship along with her, and as she spurned his advances, he obtained livid, the DCP stated.
“She began avoiding him per week again and it added to his rage. She additionally blocked his telephone quantity. On Thursday night, after she was performed with work, he pressured her to accompany him to an under-construction constructing. He strangulated her there after which beheaded her. He reduce the physique in three components and dumped these,” Kalita stated.
“The lady was aged round 35-40. Additionally it is being investigated if different folks had been concerned,” he stated.
Police had earlier stated that the lady was in a relationship with the accused, and a complication arising out of it led to the homicide.
The invention of the severed head had despatched shockwaves within the middle-class neighbourhood within the southern a part of town.
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