In a spine-chilling crime that has stunned Bihar’s Purnea district, a 45-year-old woman met a gruesome end at the hands of a savage killer. Promila Devi was brutally strangled to death before the perpetrator committed the unthinkable: he violated her lifeless body, inserted a stick into her private parts, stripped her naked, and suspended her from a mango tree using her own hair twisted into a rope.
The barbaric act unfolded in the Banbhag Chunapur Panchayat under K.Nagar police station limits. Promila had stepped out of her home that fateful night for a routine visit to the toilet, as was her habit. She never returned. Her family launched a frantic search through the night, enlisting villagers’ help. It was only the next afternoon that they discovered her mutilated corpse dangling horrifically from the tree, far from home.
Promila’s husband, Mahendra Rishi, recounted the agonizing wait. ‘She went out around 9 PM and didn’t come back. We scoured the area all night,’ he said, voice breaking. But suspicion quickly turned inward. Promila’s sister leveled explosive accusations at Mahendra, questioning how he could remain oblivious to his wife’s prolonged absence. ‘He knew something; this raises too many doubts,’ she alleged.
Police swiftly responded to villagers’ alerts, securing the scene and sending the body for post-mortem. Initial investigations point to deep-seated rage driving the killer’s methodical cruelty. Officers are probing all angles, including family disputes and local enmities. ‘The rage evident in this execution-style murder demands answers,’ a senior cop remarked. As Purnea reels from the shock, the hunt for the monster responsible intensifies, with justice hanging by a thread.