NAGPUR, SEPT 1: In a blood-curdling incident, a 30-year-old man beheaded his aunt with an axe and ran away with her head, following a domestic altercation at Khapa near here Monday morning.The same man, Ramsingh Moolchandra Bramhane, was suspected of having hacked a middle-aged farmer to death within a couple of hours of beheading the woman. A massive hunt has been launched by the Nagpur rural police to track down Ramsingh, but no arrest was reported till late Tuesday evening.According to police, Ramsingh, hailing from Sillewada, would spend his time roaming aimlessly around Khapa and would often demand money from his aunt, Durgabai - his only relative residing at Navin Khapa Vasti. His father had driven him out of their house at Sillewada and his wife too had left him a couple of years ago. For the past few days, he seemed to be mentally unsound.The 52-year-old Durgabai, a widow with no dependents, made her living from petty domestic jobs and at times gave money to her nephew in a bid to avoidmaking him angry, police said.As usual, Ramsingh reached his aunt's house at Navin Khapa around 9.30 am on Monday and once again demanded some money from her. She refused and an altercation took place.An enraged Ramsingh picked up an axe and launched a brutal assault on Durgabai. The brutality of the attack can be gauged from the fact that Ramsingh stopped only after severing the woman's head from her torso. Soon, he picked up the head and took to his heels, police said, adding that there was blood splattered all over the floor at the murder site.Within a couple of hours of the incident, the police found the body of 50-year-old farmer Vasanta Khandate, also of Navin Khapa, on the outskirts of his farm at the nearby Haladgaon Rithi Rajna village.``The body also bore wounds that seemed to be inflicted by a weapon like (the) axe,'' Sub-Divisional police officer Dilip Zalke told The Indian Express here Tuesday evening.
