Chavan, 45, of having an affair with his son-in-law. According to neighbours' reports, the man repeatedly quarreled with the victim.

Apparently he chopped her head off with an axe, police said, adding that then he started walking along the street. A local resident who saw him walking down the street with his wife's head in his hand eventually called the police, who arrested the suspect.

Ramchandra is currently in custody and is being questioned by police.

"The man did not have any mental disorders as investigated for now. He is taken into custody for murder and is being questioned further," Senior Police Inspector M. Chavhan told Indian media.arrested 26-year old James Polite later that night based on surveillance footage.

A year ago, The New York Times profiled Polite, noting that he was an LGBT foster youth who “could defy the statistics” after becoming the “adopted child of the Quinn administration,” as Christine Quinn, then the speaker of the New York city council, put it. “And it wasn’t just me. It was the entire City Council staff.”

Screenshot of James Polite Facebook

In the 2017 profile, The New York Times said Polite, who requested to join the foster care system after his mother provided “unsanitary” conditions for him, “interned with Ms. Quinn, a Manhattan Democrat, for several years, working on initiatives to combat hate crime, sexual assault and domestic violence. He also took part in her re-election campaign in