A man in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi district shocked everyone on Wednesday afternoon when he was seen calmly walking down the road with the severed head of his 17-year-old daughter.

The horrific incident took place in Pandetara village where a man identified as Sarvesh Kumar was spotted walking with his daughter’s head. The man who spotted Kumar, called the police.

Two police officers reached on spot to intercept him and started filming him on one of their phones. The officers asked him his name, where he was from and whose head was he carrying. Kumar replied without any hesitation.

In the video, he admits to beheading his daughter with a sharp tool because he was unhappy with her relationship with a man.

In the video, Kumar admits to beheading his daughter with a sharp tool as she was having an affair with a man. He was unhappy with his daughter’s relationship, he added. Kumar was heard as saying he did it. There was no one else and that he closed the latch and did it. The body is still in the room, he added.

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The policemen brought Sarvesh to the police station and arrested him for killing his daughter.

Kapil Deo Singh, a police official in Hardoi said a person named Sarvesh Kumar killed his teenage daughter and was spotted carrying her severed head on the road. The police intercepted him as soon as the officers received information about it and have taken him into custody. The police administration have also taken serious note of a photo which shows a police official carrying her head inappropriately and he has been suspended.

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 Record Bureau in September last year showed.

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