A 24-year-old man allegedly killed his mother on Sunday by slitting her throat and was arrested on Tuesday in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh. The accused reportedly recorded the murder video on his mobile phone.
Police identified the accused as Dhirendra Pandey, a resident of Khatika village, 480 kilometres northeast of Bhopal.
According to the police officials, the victim has been identified as Savitri Pandey. Her husband on Monday complained that someone has murdered her wife and dumped her body in the nearby forest.
During the investigation, it was found that Savitri’s younger son, Dhirendra, used to fight with his wife, mother, and father on trivial issues. Police also added that Dhirendra had threatened to kill Savitri on several occasions.
As reported by Hindustan Times, Rewa’s superintendent of police Rakesh Singh said, “Savitri’s younger son Dhirendra, who is jobless, started hating her mother as he thought his mother loved her elder son far more than she loved him. Dhirendra used to fight with his wife, mother, and father too on trivial issues.”
It was also revealed that Savitri lost her elder son last year and was devastated by his death. Moreover, she became mentally unstable and cried often.
The police detained the son from his home and interrogated him. Dhirendra confessed to have committed the crime and stated that he had recorded it on his phone, the police said.
“The video was later retrieved from his mobile phone. In the video, Dhirendra was seen slitting the throat of her mother with a sharp-edged weapon, and the mother is seen writhing in pain and helplessly pleading before her son to let her go. When the crime was committed, there was no one else in the house except the accused and his mother,” Singh said.
Police registered an FIR at Jawa police station under section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sent him to jail after producing him before a local court on Tuesday.
