Jharkhand: Man beheads cousin over land dispute, friends take selfie
Six people, including the prime accused and his wife, were arrested on Sunday based on a police complaint lodged by the deceased man's father on December 2.
Following the arrest of the accused, the torso was found in Kumang Gopla forest and the head 15 km away at Dulwa Tungri area, Murhu police station officer-in-charge Chudamani Tudu said. (File) A 20-year-old man beheaded his cousin over a land dispute in Jharkhand’s Khunti district, and the accused’s friends took a selfie with the severed head, police said.
The incident happened in the Murhu police station area of the district, they said.
Six people, including the prime accused and his wife, were arrested on Sunday based on a police complaint lodged by the deceased man’s father on December 2.
Kanu Munda, 24, was alone at home on December 1 as others had gone to the paddy fields for work, the father said in the police complaint.
On returning home in the evening, villagers told the father that his nephew Sagar Munda and his friends have abducted his son. After failed attempts to trace Kanu, his father lodged the police complaint the next day.
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