Anantnag, Jan 10 (KNO): In a shocking incident, a man has killed his wife and later burnt her body parts in the Aishmuqam area of Anantnag district, officials said on Friday. The man and his mother has been arrested by the police.
An official told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that police arrested a man namely Imran Ahmad Khan for killing his wife - Shabnam Akhtar in the Aishmuqam area. The crime was committed in October last year, while the man was arrested today after investigation of the case revealed the gruesome details.
He said that during investigation of the case the man confessed that he killed his wife on October 4 last year and later buried her in a cow shed.
After committing the crime, the man had filed a missing report about her wife at Aishmuqam police station and after ten days he retrieved the body from the debris of his cow shed. “He dismembered his wife’s body and then burnt the parts to bury them again,” the official said.
The deceased woman was his second wife, and he lived with his first wife after killing her. Police said that the man’s mother has also been arrested in the case.
The official said that police have recovered hair, some bones and a cell phone and they have sent for forensic investigation. “A case FIR NO 01/2025 U/S 103(1) BNS,61(2) BNS has been registered against the accused and his mother,” he said—(KNO)