New IndPress

Bangalore, Jun 20: The villagers of S Bingipura began the day with a blood-curdling sight on Monday: a man walking through the village carrying the severed head of his sister.

The ghastly incident took place around 25 km from Bangalore city near Bannerghatta. Police said that Syed Hyder Sab alias Iqbal (55) and his sister Noorjahan (60) had a dispute over sharing an acre and 28 guntas of family property and they had filed civil suits in this connection.

According to the police, the rains had brought down an eucalyptus tree on the property which was under dispute. On Monday morning, Hyder Sab went there and began chopping the tree into pieces.

Noorjahan rushed there on learning about it and did not allow him to take away the tree, claiming that it belonged to her. Apparently, Hyder Sab argued that the court's ruling was in his favour.

“She began shouting for her children and threatened to kill him. At that time, Hyder Sab pushed her down near a tree and chopped off her head,” a police officer said.

Then he paraded the head for a little distance and returned to the property where he sat, chopper in hand, till the Bannerghatta police arrived there and took him into their custody. Shocked and frightened, the villagers had dared not approach him, police said.

Police said that Hyder Sab was working as a private driver and he had two children. Noorjahan, a widow, had a son and daughter. The dispute had begun when their parents died, police said.

“It was strange because they were both elderly people,” a senior police officer said. Police said that the Hyder Sab committed the murder in a fit of rage.