Kolkata
A heart-wrenching incident has come to light in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal. The severed head of a woman was found in a garbage heap in Tollygunge area of South Kolkata. Within 24 hours, the woman’s brother-in-law was arrested for her murder. The brother-in-law has been identified as Atiur Rahman Laskar. He killed the woman because she refused to have sex with him. Kolkata Police has arrested him from his native village Basuldanga in Diamond Harbor in South 24 Parganas.
Police said that a laborer named Laskar has allegedly confessed to killing the woman who was living separately from her husband for the last two years. DCP (South Suburban) Bidisha Kalita said the woman’s severed head was found in a garbage dump near Graham Road on Friday and her torso and lower body were found near a pond in the Regent Park area on Saturday. The woman worked in a house in Regent Park. She went to work every day with the lascar who worked in Tollygunge. The DCP said that her brother-in-law wanted to have a relationship with her, but she rejected his proposal. Laskar became angry at this neglect. A week ago, she started maintaining distance from her brother-in-law, which made him even more angry. He also blocked her phone number.
According to the police, when she was free on Thursday evening, he forced her to go with him to an under-construction building. He strangled him there and then decapitated him. He cut the body into three pieces and threw them away. The police are also investigating the possible involvement of other people in this regard. The discovery of a severed head in that area shook the souls of the residents and created fear within them.
How did the police find the severed head?
On Friday morning, locals spotted a plastic bag containing a severed head in a tank on Graham Road under Golf Green police station. According to PTI report, soon after the body part was found, the police had sent it to MR Bangur Hospital for further investigation. Kolkata Police examined the footage of all available CCTV cameras of the area to find out who dumped the severed head there. Police said relevant samples have been recovered from the incident site.
A police officer said there were also injury marks and blood stains on the severed head, suggesting that the murder had taken place within 12 hours of its recovery. The police also deployed a sniffer dog to trace the body parts. The dog led police to an apartment on Graham Road, about a kilometer away from the tank. Subsequently, two constables were deployed at the entrance of the apartment to keep an eye on the movements of visitors to the building.
