New Delhi:

Nearly three weeks after a woman’s body was found in Ghaziabad, police have found that her son allegedly teamed up with his two friends to murder her. The reason: she refused him money to repair a DJ mixer. Her son and his friends have been arrested and sent to jail.

Forty-seven-year-old Sangita Tyagi’s body was recovered on the morning of October 4 in Ghaziabad’s Tronica City area. The police’s probe found that her son Sudhir was an accused in multiple cases of loot and other crimes. He was also an addict. Of late, he was working as a DJ at functions.

Sangita worked at a small clothes factory. Recently, Sudhir asked her for Rs 20,000 and said he needed to get his DJ console repaired. Sunita suspected that he would blow it on his addiction and refused.

This upset Sudhir. On the night of October 3, he picked up Sangita on his bike and rode to a place where his friends Ankit and Sachin were waiting. There, they hit her on the head with a brick and killed her. They disposed of the body in the Tronica City area and fled the spot.

“We had registered a case and scanned CCTV footage. Her son is a criminal. We found he had committed the murder, along with his two friends. We have found that he (Sudhir) did not have a job and sometimes worked as a DJ. He wanted to get his console repaired and asked his mother for Rs 20,000. She refused because he was an addict. That’s why he murdered her,” Surendranath Tiwari, DCP Rural, Ghaziabad, told the media. He added that police have not found any criminal record of Sudhir’s friends Ankit and Sachin.

With inputs from Pintu Tomar

Gurugram:

A 59-year-old woman has died after her mentally-ill son stabbed her and then set their Gurugram flat on fire, police have said. The 27-year-old man, it is learnt, attacked his mother because she called him “mad”. He has been taken into custody.

Ranu Shah lived with her husband and son at Vipul Greens, a posh apartment complex in Sector 48 of Gurugram. Her son, Atrish, had been undergoing treatment for mental illness for a long time, and neighbours said he had frequent altercations with his parents.

Late last night, neighbours saw that their flat was on fire. Firefighters and the police were called in. They broke open the door and rescued Ms Shah with severe burn injuries. She was rushed to a private hospital nearby, where she succumbed to her injuries.

According to police, a preliminary probe has found that Atrish would often get agitated and attack his mother. During an altercation yesterday, Ms Shah reportedly called him “mad”. This triggered the 27-year-old and he repeatedly stabbed his mother. He then set their home on fire. Ms Shah’s husband was away when the incident took place.

Senior police officer Mayank Gupta has said the man’s mental health will be evaluated before police takes a decision on how to proceed with the investigation, according to a Times of India report.