Silchar, April 23 -- A 19-year-old girl was arrested for allegedly beheading her mother with a machete in Assam's West Karbi Anglong district, police said, adding that the girl was found with the severed head in a forest area of Deramukh Lalung village early on Thursday morning.

Police said the body of the mother, identified as Anumai Malang (42), was sent for postmortem. "We recovered the severed head and the murder weapon from her possession. She was arrested and later produced before a court," said Diganta Saikia, officer-in-charge of Baithalangso police station.

The suspect, identified as Pooja Malang, was booked under Section 103 (murder) and 119 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhit...