BHOPAL: Robbers hacked off both legs of a 75-year-old woman in MP’s Sehore district to steal her silver anklets and threw her in a drain. She bled to death through the night.
The victim, Motan Bai, was attacked in Guradia Rupchand village in Ashta region, 90km from Bhopal, on Friday evening. Her family grew alarmed when she didn’t return home and went looking for her but found no trace of her in the darkness. By then, she lay unconscious, mutilated and bleeding to death.
Her son found the body in a drain on Saturday morning and informed police. Motan Bai’s severed feet lay nearby and her silver anklets were missing. The body was sent to the Civil Hospital for post-mortem. Police are trying to identify the killers – it would have taken more than one person to subdue her and chop off her feet.
It’s a grisly reminder of a similar murder in the same district in May 2014, where robbers chopped off the legs of a 35-year-old pregnant woman to rob her silver anklets. She bled to death. Her husband found the mutilated body the next day. Police say she was killed for her silver anklets that weighed 1kg each.
More such cases have been reported from various districts of MP. In March last year, a 75-year-old woman was murdered in her farmhouse in Sangakheda village of Chhindwara district. Police say a 24-year-old man from the same village demanded her silver anklets, and when she refused, he hacked her legs off with an axe. He is serving a life term.
In Rajgarh in 2017, a 40-year-old woman was killed by yet unidentified persons, who slit her throat and chopped off her feet for her silver anklets.
