Sarvesh Kumar was arrested when he walked to a police station in the Hardoi district on Wednesday night, with the beheaded head of his 17-year-old daughter.
“He was on foot to the police station to confess what he did,” a Hardoi police spokesman told CNN on Friday.
“He told police he saw his daughter with a young man he believed she was seeing, which made him angry because he was against it,” the spokesman added.
While Kumar, a greengrocer from the town of Pandetara, was walking one kilometer from his house to the police station, local passers-by alerted the police, who stopped him and started filming him.
According to the police spokesperson, Kumar at this time told the authorities about the relationship between his daughter and said he found her alone at home, locked her in a room and chopped off her head with a knife.
“Considering the situation, he was calm. He was not crying or hysterical. When the policemen spoke to him, they asked him to put his daughter’s head on the ground and sit down, after which he listened without returning. to argue, “the police spokesman told CNN.
Kumar is currently in custody where he is still being questioned, the spokesman added. Once the investigation is completed, a list of charges will be compiled. He has access to a public defender once he is formally charged, and he will remain in custody until the trial, police said.