Ghaziabad: Woman refuses money, son kills her with a brick

GHAZIABAD: A 40-year old man was arrested on Friday for allegedly killing his 65-year-old mother in Masuri four days ago. The woman’s body was found with head injuries in a forested area on April 15 after she reportedly went missing from her farmland earlier that day.
Police said the arrested man, Bhagat Singh, had asked for Rs 1 lakh from his mother Ramrati for renovating his house but she refused to give the money.In a fit of rage, Singh hit his mother with a brick several times while she was resting in the fields. Later, he dumped the body in a nearby jungle. In the evening, he spread the news that his mother had been missing since afternoon. Singh joined his two younger brothers in a search operation and took them to the place where the body was lying.
The three brothers brought the body home and on the insistence of villagers, informed the police. Initially, Singh tried to perform the last rites without informing the police. Later, the recovery of the brick and a blood-stained shirt from the crime scene raised suspicion among the cops. During sustained questioning, Singh allegedly confessed to the crime.
He told the police that there was about Rs 5 lakh in Ramrati’s bank account and he had asked for the money three weeks ago. “He had built two rooms on the upper floor of his house but needed to complete renovation. Ramrati had said she had kept the money for her granddaughter’s marriage and could not give it to him. Since then, Bhagat had been nursing a grudge against his mother,” said SP (rural) Neeraj Kumar Jadaun.