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KOLKATA: A construction materials supplier chopped his wife into six pieces in Madhyamgram. The man was 55-year-old. He packed her body parts in a jute bag, immersed it in a canal. After that he lodged a missing complaint at police station on Saturday.
When his married daughter saw blood stains on her missing mother’s cellphone the next day, she tried to commit suicide by consuming poison. When interrogated by the police in the hospital, he confessed to the crime.
On Tuesday, police recovered the mutilated body parts from the Noiya Canal and arrested Nooruddin Mandal. According to the information received by Police, Mandal lodged a missing report of his wife at Madhyamgram police station on Saturday, but inconsistencies in his statements raised their suspicion.
Giving information about this incident, Bhaskar Mukherjee, Barasat SP said, “Matters escalated when on Sunday Nooruddin Mondal’s daughter filed an abduction complaint and Mondal attempted suicide, leading to his hospitalisation.”
On Monday, Mandal confessed to the police that he slit his wife’s throat, cut her body into pieces, packed the pieces in a jute bag and threw them in the canal.
The victim identified as Saira Banu, 50-year-old. Police suspect that the murder is the result of a property dispute. Family members have told police that Mandal was pressurizing his wife Saira Banu (50) to give him a piece of his land.
Telling about the matter, daughter Mani Bibi said,”My mother owned a three-cottah land and a house at Madhyamgram’s Srinagar where I live with my family. But my father was putting pressure on her to give him the property. She paid with her life for refusing.”
A Neighbours said the police they didn’t find any reason to suspect Mondal. A neighbour Kalam Uddin Sheikh said,”He joined us and his family members in the search after his wife mysteriously disappeared. We never imagined he could kill his wife so brutally and then remain calm and behave so normally for a couple days.”
The police are waiting for Mandal’s complete recovery to interrogate him further. The recovered body parts have been sent for postmortem and DNA samples have been preserved.
