Police in India have arrested a man, who they say kept his mother’s body in a freezer for three years, reports the BBC.
Kolkata resident Subhabrata Majumdar was arrested on an anonymous tip over phone on Wednesday, the report quoted police officials.
The suspect, who works as a leather technologist, appears to have mummified and preserved the body with chemicals.
The BBC report says that police are investigating whether the suspect kept the body so he could access his mother’s pension after she died.
"We found a woman's body lying inside a big freezer. It was preserved with some chemicals," the report quoted a police officer, who added that they also found jars containing various body parts.
Indian media reported that Majumdar’s mother died in April 2015 and the family chose not to cremate her and kept the body in a large freezer, conventionally used for storing ice cream.
The suspect’s both parent were retired and received a pension, which can’t be withdrawn once a person is dead.
"But we found that money has been regularly taken out of the deceased woman's pension account since her death," the BBC quoted police officer Nilanjan Biswas saying.
Majumdar’s father has also been taken in for questioning.