From Our Correspondent
Guwahati: Ranjit Das, the man who allegedly severed his wife’s head and marched through a street in the Assam’s capital city here on Thursday, was remanded to judicial custody for three days on being produced before a magistrate here on Friday.
Das, who lives in a rented house in the Japorigog locality, close to the state capital complex at Dispur here, had allegedly chopped off the head of his wife Amaya Daimary Das, and then walked holding it in one hand and a blood-stained machete on the other until some CRPF jawans accosted him and drove him to Dispur police station.
An official in the Dispur police station said Das had confessed to have killed his wife during interrogation.
The magistrate sent him to three days’ judicial custody. He would be produced before the magistrate again on Monday.
Das, plies a autorickshaw and also runs a small grocery shop in his locality.
Father of two sons aged nine and six, Das told the police that he had suspected his wife of having an illicit affair with another person. He also told the police the name of the “other person”, which the police refused to divulge.
His wife Amaya, who was a health worker under the National Rural Health Mission posted at Orang in Udalguri district, had come home for her puja holidays when Das killed her.
After chopping off his wife’s head following an altercation, Das started walking with the severed head and the blood-stained machete on his both hands through the busy Ganeshguri junction at around 11:30 am on Thursday when a group of CRPF jawans on duty picked him up and drove him to the Dispur police station.