Hathras crime scene to be recreated in ‘different’ ways

house. He said it suggests that there were at least four people who were cutting crop and may have been eyewitness to the entire episode.

He said the statement of the victim’s mother and brother will be recorded in detail to recreate the sequence of events in their presence.

He said although the state government has already recommended a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigation into the case, but till then the state police investigators are trying to collect all details related to the crime and it will be handed over to the CBI when it takes over the case.

Meanwhile, the three-member SIT recorded the statement of several witnesses on Friday. Earlier on October 2, on the basis of SIT’s preliminary report, the state government had suspended five police officers, including the then superintendent of police, Hathras, Vikrant Vir earlier.

The SIT comprises secretary (home) Bhagwan Swaroop Srivastava, deputy inspector general of police Chandra Prakash and commandant, Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC), Agra, Poonam (who goes by one name).

A man cut off the head of his wife and walked for 2 km, carrying it and the axe he used to behead her, to the Baberu police station in Banda on Thursday morning, leaving passers-by in shock and disbelief.

Incensed on seeing his wife speaking to his neighbour Ravi Kant on his return to the house, Kinnar Yadav attacked her with an axe and then beheaded her,