NEW DELHI: A 48-year-old woman allegedly beat her mother-in-law to death using a frying pan in south Delhi’s Neb Sarai area, police have said and suspect that the accused might have grown frustrated with taking care of the 86-year-old who was suffering from arthritis.
On April 28, a person informed the police that his friend’s mother Hasi Som fell in her flat and was bleeding, police said. Surjit Som (51), his wife Sarmishta Som (48) and their 16-year-old daughter have been living with her at Swastik Residency in Neb Sarai since 2014.
A police officer said the family hails from Kolkata and his mother was living in the West Bengal capital
alone till March 2022 when he brought her to Delhi. He rented a flat for her in front of his own, the officer said. When the police reached the spot, they found Hasi Som lying in the kitchen with multiple injuries on her face and skull, police said.
Surjit said his mother was suffering from arthritis for a long time and had problems walking. A CCTV camera was found in the bedroom but it had no storage device in it. Still, it was taken into possession, police said.