A quiet village in Purnea district awoke to horror on discovering 45-year-old Promila Devi’s corpse grotesquely displayed on a mango tree. Strangled first, her body bore marks of post-mortem rape—including a brutal insertion—and was left naked, suspended by hair braided into a makeshift rope. This calculated brutality in K.Nagar’s Banbhag Chunapur Panchayat has ignited fear and fury across Bihar.
Promila vanished after exiting her home that evening for the outdoors, a common practice. Her husband Mahendra Rishi mobilized relatives and neighbors for an all-night hunt. Success came tragically the next day when the tree revealed the nightmare. ‘It was unrecognizable at first glance,’ Mahendra shared, haunted.
Family rifts surfaced immediately. Promila’s sister wasted no time in implicating her sibling’s spouse: ‘Suspicious that he didn’t know where she was for so long.’ Such claims have fueled speculation of domestic motives amid the savagery.
Responding officers documented the scene meticulously before postmortem handover. Experts note the perpetrator’s rage manifested in ritualistic humiliation. ‘Deep animosity is clear from the method,’ an investigator stated. With no immediate suspects, police are grilling locals, family, and reviewing timelines. This atrocity underscores women’s vulnerability in rural India, spurring calls for heightened vigilance and faster justice.