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Peshawar, April 7(ANI): A Pakistani court has extended the police custody of two brothers charged with cannibalism.

Arif Ali and Farman Ali were arrested earlier this week after police caught them making a meal of a corpse they had recently stolen from a grave.

The brothers’ alleged cannibalism was discovered after the body of a newly deceased woman was found to be missing from her grave in the city of Sargodha.

The family of the deceased woman became suspicious when they visited her grave a few days after the burial to find that it had been disturbed.

After digging to check the body was still there, they found it to be missing, following which a police complaint was lodged, and the subsequent investigation led to the house of the brothers.

“We have charged them under the anti-terrorism act. They have been produced in court in Sargodha, ” the BBC quoted Inspector Abdur Rahman of Darya Khan police, as saying.

Both brothers are small-scale landowners in Darya Khan, a town located on the border of the provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

“They had cut a part of the corpse and were cooking it when we appeared on the scene,” a police official said.

The other remains of the 24-year-old woman, who had died of cancer, were recovered from the brothers’ residence, the report said.

The police have not revealed any clear reason as to why the men allegedly resorted to cannibalism.

They say the duo appear to be in sound physical and mental condition and were living in seclusion with their sister, whose mental condition is said to be unstable.

The brothers have also allegedly admitted eating local dogs before turning to human meat.

Neighbours have expressed shock at the discovery, saying they never suspected that the two men could be involved in such acts. (ANI)