Pune Couple Held for Killing, Decapitating Woman, Dumping Body in River

Pune: A couple has been arrested in connection with the death of a woman, whose headless body was found on the banks of a river in Pune city earlier this week, the police reported on Sunday.
The police on Saturday held Ashfaq Khan and his wife Hamida for allegedly killing his 48-year-old sister in a dispute over ownership of a room in a slum.

The police has found the body of a woman, who had been decapitated with her hands and legs severed, on the banks of the Mutha River in the Kharadi area on August 26.
After the investigation, it was found that the woman was identified as Sakina Khan (48).
“The Pune city police recovered a woman's torso from the banks of the Mutha River. There were no clothes on the body, and the accused had dismembered it to destroy evidence before throwing it in the river”, Joint Commissioner of Police Ranjankumar Sharma said.

He further added, "On 30th August, we learned about a missing complaint of Sakina Khan filed at Shivaji Nagar police station. Following this, we interrogated the brother, Ashfaq Khan, and sister-in-law, Hamida Khan. they confessed to the murder, revealing that Sakina was first strangled with a rope, and later, her body was chopped into pieces. Ashfaq then threw her torso into the Mutha river during heavy rainfall in Pune."

The initial probe revealed that the victim, Sakina, had a dispute with her brother over the ownership of a room in a slum in the Shivaji Nagar area.
Sakina had been reported missing, and her brother Ashfaq and sister-in-law Hamida were detained in connection with her disappearance.
The duo allegedly strangled the victim, decapitated her and dismembered the body to destroy the evidence.
The couple has been arrested under sections 103 (murder) and 238 (causing the disappearance of evidence) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).