A man walked for about 3 km through the heart of Guwahati, holding the severed head of a woman in one hand and a blood-stained machete in the other in broad daylight, causing quite a sensation even as the Assam capital was in a festive mood on the last day of Durga Puja.
The man, later identified as one Ranjit Das, was finally intercepted by some CRPF personnel on duty, who drove him to the Dispur police station where he was arrested.
“Ranjit Das claimed he had chopped off his wife’s head and was heading towards the police station on foot when the CRPF personnel spotted him and brought him to the police station,” a police officer at the Dispur police station said.
While the sentry at the Dispur police station said Das arrived at 11:40 am, the murder that he claimed to have committed had apparently taken place around 11 am. His wife Amaya Daimary Das’s headless body was later recovered by the police from a rented house at a locality called Bikrampur, close to Ganeshguri in Dispur.
Das, who worked as an autorickshaw driver in the city hails from Barpeta. While his wife worked as a health worker under the National Rural Health Mission, Das also ran a small grocery shop to make both ends meet.
While the police are yet to come to any conclusion regarding the exact motive behind the gruesome murder, Das claimed he had suspected his wife of having an affair with another person. The couple had two sons aged nine and six years.
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