Kills with Axe for Texting…
On Tuesday, 22 August 2023, a 17-year-old boy allegedly axed his mother to death in the Palghar district of Maharashtra after seeing her messaging someone from her mobile phone, police said.
On Sunday night the incident took place in the Parole area of Vasai township, they said.
The boy doubted the character of his mother, Sonali Gogra aged 35, and the two had frequent quarrels over it, inspector Ashok Kamble from Mandvi police station said.
While the boy was having dinner on Sunday night, he noticed his mother messaging someone on the mobile phone and got disturbed.
He then pulled out an axe and allegedly hit her with it, the official said.
The other family members were not present in the house at the time of the incident, he said.
The severely injured woman was rushed to the Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Bhiwandi where doctors declared her dead, he said.
The body was sent for postmortem.
A case against the accused was registered under Indian Penal Code Section 302 (murder), who is not behind the bars yet, the police said.
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