WARNING - DISTURBING CONTENT: A man has been charged with murder after allegedly walking into a police station carrying his wife’s severed head.

Abhijit Das cycled into a Patharpratima police station in India on Monday with the head in a bag, Times of India reports.

Das reportedly told police he believed his wife Amba was having an affair with a neighbour.

An Indian man has reportedly carried his wife's severed head into a police station and confessed to murdering her. Source: Getty Images (file pic) More

He also reportedly confessed to killing her and cutting off her head but police didn’t believe him until he removed it from the bag.

Das was taken into custody while police searched his home two hours away.

Police found Amba’s headless body in a pool of blood in Das’s home.

The man was then charged with his wife’s murder.

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