A 47-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly killing her 81-year-old mother following a quarrel at her house in west Delhi's Hari Nagar.
The deceased has been identified as Santosh Bagga (81) and her daughter Neeru Bagga, who works as an assistant personnel officer at a power discom has been arrested in connection with the killing.
According to a senior police official, on Saturday a police control room (PCR) call was received regarding an abandoned woman with head injury sitting in front of a residence at KhazanBasti, Mayapuri.
"On reaching spot, a woman identified as Neeru Bagga, was found in a hysterical state and was unable to speak properly. Police consoled her and tried to calm her. Later, the woman told police that she stays along with her mother Santosh Bagga in Hari Nagar and said that she had a quarrel with her mother after which she hit her mother on the head and left the house," said the senior police official.
"Another police team was sent to her residence at Hari Nagar to verify the details. Meanwhile, a police official along with Neeru reached the house and found the body of her old mother lying in a pool of blood with injuries on her body," said the police official.
"At the house, the blood stained clothes of the accused Neeru were also found which have been seized and taken into possession. A case of murder has been registered and the accused was arrested," the police official added.