Irked by non-stop torture, woman kills son with granite stone

The woman, Saraswathi, surrendered at the Tiruverkadu police station claiming that she killed her son Senthil as he tortured her after getting drunk. According to her, Senthil worked as a loadman but stopped going to work after becoming a liquor addict. He also often quarrelled with his wife Kamatchi with whom he has three children. 

On Monday night, Senthil came home drunk and picked a fight with Kamatchi. Upset over her husband, Kamatchi along with three children left for her mother’s house in Anakaputhur. 

Later, Senthil allegedly slapped his mother Saraswathi before going to bed. Fearing an attack by him, Saraswathi threw the stone slab on his head around 5 am on Tuesday, killing him on the spot. 

Police retrieved Senthil’s body from the house and sent it to post-mortem to a nearby government hospital. Saraswathi has been remanded in judicial custody. 

In a tragic incident, a 22-yearold woman and her sixmonth-old child were electrocuted on Monday night as she came in contact with a live wire while asleep at her house at MC Nagar on Walltax Road. A portable fan was connected to a switchboard through the power chord which was not properly sealed and the victims, Aruna and Diwan, were sleeping near the fan, said police. 

Aruna’s brother Suriya who reached home after work called Aruna. Since she laid without any movement, he grew suspicious and immediately rushed the mother and son to Stanley Hospital. 

But doctors declared that both had died due to electric shock. Luckily, two more kids of Aruna — Keerthana (5) and Keerthy (4) — escaped as they were sleeping a few feet away. Aruna’s husband Siva is an auto driver and was out for work when the incident happened.