Tripura, March 12: A woman allegedly beheaded her 50-year-old husband and kept the blood-soaked head in a plastic bag at the family’s temple in Tripura Khowai district in the early hours of Saturday, a police officer said.
While Khowai Superintendent of Police Bhanupada Chakraborty said the reason behind the killing is not yet known, the couple’s elder son said his mother has developed a psychological disorder recently and underwent treatment by a local occultist.
The 42-year-old woman was arrested from their residence at Indira Colony village Tripura of the district. She was living there with her husband Rabindra Tanti, a daily wager, and two minor sons.
“My mother had always been a vegetarian. But she had chicken last night and all of us went to sleep. Suddenly I woke up and saw my father was beheaded. I was shocked to see my mother was standing with a blood-soaked dao (a sharp weapon). When we raised an alarm, she rushed out of the room and kept my father’s head in our temple,” the elder son said.
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She then confined herself to a room from where the police arrested her.
“We have recovered the body and arrested the woman. An investigation has started,” the SP told PTI.
A forensic team has visited the place and collected pieces of evidence, he said.
About the mental illness of the accused, Mr Chakraborty said he cannot comment on that without a doctor’s report.
