In a shocking first-of-its-kind, reports of an elderly woman’s frozen body being found in Kolkata, have come to the limelight.
The woman, Bina Majumdar, had died on 7th April 2015 when she 84 years old. Her son, a leather technology graduate, is suspected to have removed her intestines and mummified the body with chemicals before freezing it. The freezer used is the normal commercial variety, which is generally used by shops to store ice creams.
Acting on a tip off, the police raided the Majumdar house on James Long Sarani in south-west Kolkata’s Behala area and found the body. A second freezer was also found. Police sources say the son had got the second freezer as a back up when the first freezer started to give mechanical trouble.
Why the son, 46-year-old Shubhabrata Majumdar, did this is not clear. Both he and his aged father, Gopal Majumdar, have been detained for questioning.
The police is probing various theories to establish the motive behind the act. According to the police, the son had used a debit card to withdraw his mother’s pension for the last three years. He had also submitted a “live certificate” so the pension would continue.
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Bina Majumdar was an employee in the Food Corporation of India or FCI and drew a monthly pension of Rs. 50,000. Her husband also worked at FCI till his retirement.
Another motive being probed is the loss of mental balance of both the father and son. Sources say the father had convinced his son that he could bring the mother back to life.
According to the police, Bina Majumdar died on 7 April 2015 at Balananda Hospital at 9.55 pm of severe hypoglycemia and related shock. The family had taken away the body from the hospital. What happened next is not clear. Neighbours said whenever they asked the son about his mother’s body, he said it was kept at a mortuary called ‘Peace Haven’.
A senior police officer said there was a mark of an incision in Bina Majumdar’s body. The cause will be clear only after a post-mortem. There were also several containers found in the house. They have been sent for forensic examination.