Mohammad Arif Ali (right) sits next to an officer at a police station in Punjab's Bhakkar district on
- Mohammed Arif Ali and his brother jailed in 2011 for dismembering female corpse
- Brothers released two years later after completing their jail term
- Police arrest Arif Ali after neighbors complain about smell coming from his home
Mohammed Arif Ali was
arrested early Monday after neighbors alerted police to a "foul smell"
coming from his house in the village of Kahawar Khan in the Bhakkar
district of Punjab, district police chief Ameer Abdullah Khan told CNN
Tuesday.
When they went to
investigate, they discovered the decapitated head of an infant next to a
burning stove. The head, which is now being examined at a hospital in
the nearby village of Darya Khan, looked to be around five days old,
Abdullah said
Arif Ali was arrested at
the scene, while his brother, Mohammed Farman Ali, was apprehended by
police hours later on the outskirts of their village.
Police said both men confessed to eating human flesh.
The brothers were
released from prison last year after serving a two-year jail term for
similar offenses -- they admitted dismembering a woman's body they had
stolen from a graveyard in Darya Khan where they lived at the time.
With no explicit law on
cannibalism in Pakistan, the two men were convicted of desecrating a
dead body and other public order offenses in a case that provoked
widespread revulsion across Pakistan, according to CNN affiliate Geo TV.
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