A 50-year-old woman was stabbed to death in a minor dispute over three rupees, while her two sons, who came to save their mother, were also injured at Haji Nagar under Chas police station area of Bokaro district here on Wednesday morning. Both the injured are being treated in the hospital, said Chas Inspector cum Officer in charge Md Rustam.
After getting information about the incident, Chas police reached the spot and started investigating the matter.
Rustam has said that on the statement of the injured, the police are conducting raids to arrest the accused. The police have taken the father of the accused into custody for questioning.
According to the information, there was a dispute between the victim and the accused in the shop on Tuesday evening for only three rupees. The matter was also resolved last evening itself but when the deceased Najma alias Laila advised the accused Mohammad Zakir not to get into such controversy, he got angry.
During the sequence, he caught the woman and his partner Guddu Ansari attacked the woman with a sharp knife. Seeing the woman being stabbed, both her sons came to save her but the accused also injured both of them by stabbing them.
Nearby people hurriedly took the woman and both the sons to the hospital where the woman was declared brought dead by the doctors. The treatment of both the sons is going on in Sadar Hospital.