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In a bizarre case of cannibalism reported from Bijnor district, a man cut the hand of a human corpse in the cremation ground and took it home. When he gave the hand to his wife to cook, she fainted and fell on the ground on seeing the severed hand.
Later, after regaining conscious she revealed the sensational facts to the police following which the cops registered a case and arrested the man.
This incident was reported from Bijnor’s Tikkopur village.
According to reports, Sanju of Tikkopur hamlet in Bijnor is mentally ill. He brought the hand of a corpse from the cremation ground to cook dinner two days ago. The deceased had been buried last weekend. On coming home, Sanju asked his wife Sunita to cook the hand but on seeing the severed arm she fainted.
Bijnor’s Superintendent of Police Sanjeev Tyagi said the accused young man was a mental patient and brought a human hand from the neighbouring cremation ground near the river Ganga.
Preliminary investigation revealed that Sanju was an alcoholic and mentally unsound and had already gone to jail on the charge of killing his father.