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'I have become psycho': After beheading wife, man sits in temple with severed head
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'I have become psycho': After beheading wife, man sits in temple with severed head

In South Dinajpur district, West Bengal, a man named Rintu Ghosh was arrested after allegedly beheading his wife, Seema Sarkar, and sitting in a Kali temple with her severed head on his lap. Local residents discovered the scene and alerted police, who recovered the body and sent it for a post-mortem examination. Ghosh, a former bus conductor for the North Bengal State Transport Corporation, stated to reporters that he had become a psycho after losing his job. A relative noted that Ghosh had struggled financially since unemployment and recently exhibited behavioral changes, including adopting a vegetarian diet and acting in a manner described as tantric. Police are currently interrogating the accused to establish the specific motive behind the killing.

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'I have become psycho': After beheading wife, man sits in temple with severed head

In South Dinajpur district, West Bengal, a man named Rintu Ghosh was arrested after allegedly beheading his wife, Seema Sarkar, and sitting in a Kali temple with her severed head on his lap. Local residents discovered the scene and alerted police, who recovered the body and sent it for a post-mortem examination. Ghosh, a former bus conductor for the North Bengal State Transport Corporation, stated to reporters that he had become a psycho after losing his job. A relative noted that Ghosh had struggled financially since unemployment and recently exhibited behavioral changes, including adopting a vegetarian diet and acting in a manner described as tantric. Police are currently interrogating the accused to establish the specific motive behind the killing.

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Bias read (Center): The headline uses standard journalistic phrasing focusing on procedural facts like 'caught' and 'accused' without employing emotionally charged language or taking a clear ideological stance on the crime or the victim's status.

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