Overview
- Police identified the suspect as Pooja Malang, 19, who allegedly used a dao to kill her mother, Anumai Malang, on Wednesday night and injured her father and sister when they tried to stop her.
- She left the house with the severed head and hid in dense woods nearby, and officers arrested her Thursday morning without a chase.
- Police said they recovered the head and alleged weapons from her, and they produced her in court the same day.
- She has been booked under Sections 103 and 119 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, India’s criminal code, and mandatory medical checks for her and a postmortem for the victim are underway.
- Officers are recording family statements and probing motive, and they noted finding a sickle, scissors and items like oil and vermilion at the arrest site that have not been linked to any ritual claim by police.