The man was arrested by police in the Hardoi district of Uttar Pradesh.
Lucknow:
Residents of a village in the Hardoi district of Uttar Pradesh were shocked Wednesday morning when they saw a man calmly walking down the road with the severed head of his 17-year-old daughter.
One of them, who saw Sarvesh Kumar with his head walking down the road in the village of Pandetara, about 200 km from Lucknow, called the police.
Two officers came to intercept him and began filming the approach on one of their phones. They ask him his name, where he is from and whose head he was. Sarvesh answers without hesitation.
In the video, he admits to beheading his daughter with a sharp tool because he was unhappy with his relationship with a man.
“I did. There was no one else. I closed the latch and did it. The body is in the room,” he is heard saying.
The police ask him to lower his head and sit by the road and once again he obliges without protest.
The policemen took Sarvesh to the police station and arrested him.
Senior Police Officer Anurag Vats said police will press charges against the man soon.
Uttar Pradesh topped the list of states with the highest number of crimes against women in 2019, the latest data released by the National Crime Registry Office in September last year showed.
Uttar Pradesh also had the highest number of crimes against girls under the POCSO Act with 7,444 cases, followed by Maharashtra (6,402) and Madhya Pradesh (6,053).
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