‘She blocked me’: Brother-in-law kills woman, chops body into 3 parts in West Bengal | Kolkata News – Times of India

KOLKATA: A day after the recovery of a severed head of a woman from a vat in Tollygunge’s Graham Road area, the nine-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case claimed to have cracked the case with the arrest of a house painter from Laskarpara in Diamond Harbour.
The victim has been identified as Khateja Bibi, also from Laskarpara. The accused, Atiqur Laskar, is the victim’s brother-in-law. After questioning Laskar for 12 hours, the cops on Saturday recovered the remaining body parts, kept in two plastic bags behind an unoccupied apartment in the Regent Colony area.
“The victim was divorced for a couple of years and had three children. Both the victim and the accused used to travel together on local trains daily from Diamond Harbour to Baghajatin station for work in the Regent Colony area. Khateja worked as a maid at a number of houses here. Both are aged 40 and reside close to one another,” said DC (SSD) Bidisha Kalita.
DC Kalita claimed that the motive behind the murder was repeated rejection in a one-sided love affair. “The accused developed romantic feelings for the victim, which the deceased was rejecting repeatedly. On Dec 12, after the victim finished her work around noon, the accused pursued her and convinced her to have lunch together. Using this as an excuse, he took her to a house that was unoccupied and where he was currently working as a painter cum labourer. There they had a heated argument over Bibi blocking Laskar’s phone number, after which the accused killed the victim by throttling her. He then went about destroying evidence. It was with this motive that he chopped the body into three parts and put them in three separate plastic bags. After disposing of the body parts at different places on the night of Dec 12, he returned to work on the morning of Dec 13. He was aware that if he was absent, he could become a suspect,” said Kalita.
According to state police sources, Laskar was detained on Friday night from Basabdaanga Panchgram in the Diamond Harbour police station area based on CCTV footage studied over a 2km radius and tracking people who were close to Khateja. During interrogation at the Diamond Harbour police station, the accused revealed that he had disposed of the woman’s head in that area and took a train from Jadavpur station to Diamond Harbour early that morning.
Interestingly, the police have so far found no link between the murder and the apartment complex at Graham Road, 400 metres from the spot where the severed head was recovered, where the police sniffer dog had rushed to on Friday.