Kolkata woman strangled, beheaded and chopped into pieces for refusing brother-in-law's advances

The body parts were dumped in a garbage vat behind a multi-storey building in south Kolkata's posh Tollygunge neighbourhood.

The severed head, wrapped in a polythene bag, was spotted by locals on Friday, who immediately informed the police.

Subsequent police investigations found the torso and lower portion of the woman's body near a pond on Saturday.

Atiur Rahman Laskar, the 35-year-old brother-in-law who works as a construction worker, has confessed to the crime, said reports.

He said that he killed the woman, who worked as a domestic help in the same area after she repeatedly rejected his romantic advances.

The woman was separated from her husband for two years and used to commute to work daily with Laskar.

According to Deputy Commissioner of Police Bidisha Kalita, the victim had started avoiding Laskar and even blocked his phone number. The rejection did not go well with the accused.

On Thursday evening, he forced her to accompany him to an under-construction building after work where he strangled her first, then beheaded her, and chopped her body into three parts.

The remains were later disposed of in different locations, the police said.

After the discovery of the severed head, sniffer dogs were pressed into action to find the rest of the torso.

Preliminary examinations of the severed head, which had injury marks and bloodstains, suggested the crime was committed within 12 hours of its discovery.