Chaos prevailed here when a youth attempted to stab his mother in front of the State Assembly near Lower PMG on Thursday.
The youth identified as Jitendra Pal of Nayagarh threatened to slit his mother Jharana’s throat with a knife, but police intervened and managed to overpower and nab him.
Jitendra was taking his mother to a hospital here but later attacked her all of a sudden in middle of road in the presence of police personnel.