Indian man ‘kept his mother’s mummified body in freezer for three years to collect her pension’
Subhabrata Majumdar, 46, told police he thought he could bring his mother back to life – even though he had scooped out her organs and put her in a freeze in the home he shared with his father
A Kolkata man has been arrested after he mummified his mother’s body and kept it in a freezer so that he could collect on her pension, police said.
Subhabrata Majumdar, 46, was arrested after the body of his mother, Bina, was found in a large chest freezer – like those used to store food in supermarkets – during a police raid on his home on Thursday, police officer Nilanjan Biswas said.
Bina Majumdar died at a nursing home on April 7, 2015 – at which point he retrieved the body, used mummification techniques to preserve her, and dumped her in the deep freezer, the Hindustan Times reported.
Homicide police raided the home, in Behala, on the southernmost fringes of Kolkata, after a tip-off, police said. Neighbours had complained about a high-powered air conditioning unit that had been installed in the empty first floor of the two-storey building.
Majumdar told police that he kept her mother’s body because he believed she could be brought back to life.
