On Monday evening, the quiet life of a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Auraiya district was shaken when a young woman’s family found a horrifying scene in her bedroom. Wrapped neatly in her clothes on the bed was a five-foot-long sloughed snake skin, her rings and bangles inside, and a sprinkling of sindoor (vermilion).
Superstition Sparks Panic
The story spread as soon as the woman's disappearance was shrouded in local legend. Rumors spread that she had magically turned into a “nagin.” Neighbors and family members in the building who were terrified of the supernatural event telephoned the police by the 112 emergency helpline. Over the following hours, the village was consumed with fear and residents debated whether what lay before them was “divine,” or “mysterious.”
The Police Disclose the Scripted Movement Out
Station in-charge Ajay Kumar and other investigators at the police station in Phaphund descended on the scene and could already tell that the “transformation” was an elaborate ruse. According to the police probe:
- The Motive: The woman’s relatives had just fixed her marriage elsewhere, against her wishes.
- The Lover: She had been having a long relationship with the man from the same village and had wanted to marry him.
- The Plan: In order to escape detection and distract from the chase to create momentary distraction, she purposefully sourced the snake skin and staged the “mysterious” scene to deceive her family into believing she was no longer human.
Ongoing Investigation
“This whole incident is a cinematic film-style drama that intended to divert suspicion,” said SHO Ajay Kumar. “In this incident, the woman deliberately abandoned the snake skin in order to make people frightened. We have put her mobile phone under surveillance and are tracking her location.”
A missing person complaint has been formally filed by the family, and the nagin rumors have withered into thin air as the village understands the supernatural scare that was a desperate try to evade an unwanted marriage was nothing more than a last-ditch effort to get away from one.”
