In a gruesome incident, a man hacked his mother to death with a sharp weapon at Kunjapali village under the Birmaharajpur police station in Subarnapur district.
Sources said lalit Padhan (30) had admitted his pregnant wife at the Sonepur hospital on June 11 and later she gave birth to a girl. lalit wanted to visit the hospital to see his newborn daughter and his wife.
lalit asked his mother for some money to go to the hospital. But as his mother Satyabhama (60) refused to give him money, he mercilessly hacked her in a fit of rage.
later, Satyabhama was rushed to hospital but succumbed to her injuries on the way. The Birmaharajpur police seized the murder weapon and sent the woman’s body for postmortem.