In a bizarre and macabre incident fueled by superstition, a middle-aged couple in a village of Rajkot district in Gujarat reportedly decapitated themselves using a home-made guillotine to offer their heads in a human sacrifice ritual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the police, the deceased couple, identified as 38-year-old Hemubhai Makwana and his 35-year-old wife Hansaben, made a guillotine at home and used it behead themselves at a sacrificial altar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vinchhiya police station Sub-Inspector Indrajeetsingh Jadeja said the couple beheaded themselves at a sacrificial altar and planned the beheading in a such a way that their severed heads rolled into the altar fire after decapitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Giving details, the officer said the couple prepared a fire altar for sacrifice and later put their heads under a home-made guillotine held by a rope. The couple then released the rope, making the iron blade come down upon them and decapitating the husband and wife with their severed heads rolling into the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read Also<\/strong>: Death toll in Bihar hooch tragedy rises to 26, 20 others still in hospital<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sub-Inspector Jadeja said the police found a suicide note from the scene written by the deceased couple wherein they urged their relatives to take care of their parents and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The couple is survived by two children, parents, and other extended family living in the same village and adjacent areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A report quoting the couple\u2019s family members said the husband and wife had been offering prayers in the hut every day since last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Officer Jadeja said the bodies have been sent for post-mortem examination and the police has registered case of accidental death by suicide in this regard, adding the further investigation is underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a similar incident, last month, a 10-year-old boy was found murdered with his throat slit open in a field, allegedly slain as a human sacrifice, in a village of Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Bahraich district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A senior police official said the minor boy, identified as Vivek Verma, was reported missing by his father Krishna Verma\u2014a resident of Parsa village\u2014 following which the police launched a search to locate the boy and found his body in a field on the same night with his throat slit open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n