Two sisters killed their 80-year-old maternal grandmother in Kulerguda village under Kokasara block of Kalahandi district late on Friday night.Identified as Haripriya Bag (25, married) and Dibya Bharti Suna (20, unmarried), the duo called on their grandmother Gaja Suna (80) on Friday night while she was alone and demanded to be handed over the 10 bhari gold and cash at home. When Gaja refused to give in to their demands, the two sisters brutally murdered her by crushing her head with a heavy object.
The villagers upon hearing a loud noise late at night surrounded the house, overpowered the assailants and called police. While the sisters attempted to flee the scene after committing the crime, the villagers locked the sisters in and handed them over to police when they reached the scene two hours later. Gaja Suna lived with her older son Kirtan Suna. Her younger son loknath stays separately in Kokasara. Kirtan had been hospitalized five days before the incident in Nabarangpur hospital and his wife was there to attend to him leaving the old woman alone in the house.
