Last rites of ‘severed head’ victim performed

Police yet to arrest suspects in the case

Mortal remains of 30-year-old Jahender Naik, whose decapitated body was found in Rangareddy district, three days after the severed head was found placed at an idol’s feet last week in Nalgonda district, were buried at Shunya Pahad village in Suryapet district on Friday.

Nalgonda police had found the decapitated body under a heap of bricks at an old, under-construction building at Turkayamjal, about 50 kilometres away from the temple’s idol at Gollapally, on Thursday.

Family members, who were alerted by pictures of the severed head on social media, earlier had claimed the identity by producing old photographs and other documents.