Lucknow: In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old boy allegedly shot dead his mother in a fit of rage here after she refused to allow him to play PUBG.
The boy shot his mother with his father’s licensed revolver and kept her body hidden in a room and sprayed room freshener.
He threatened his 10-year-old sister and kept her locked in the house for over three days.
During this time, the accused called his friends over for parties and told them that his mother had gone to visit a relative.
However, on Tuesday a neighbour who got some foul smell informed the boy’s father, an Army official, posted in West Bengal.
The father informed the police who came in and found the body of Sadhana, 40, from her house in Eldeco Colony under the SGPGI police station on Tuesday night.
ACP, Cantonment, Archana Singh said on Wednesday that a friend of the victim’s husband informed the police that foul smell was emanating from his house.
“We reached the spot and found the decomposed body,” Singh said.
“A forensic team was called on the spot which told us that the woman was shot in the head from close range and then her body was kept in an air-conditioned room to conceal the crime,” she said.
Singh said that the victim’s husband told the police over the phone that on June 4, Sadhana had a spat with her son.
She had stopped him from playing PUBG and refused to give him money. Irked over the denial, the boy took out his father’s gun and shot her in the head,” said Singh.
The victim’s daughter, when questioned by the police, narrated the entire sequence of events.
A police official said earlier the boy tried to mislead the investigators by “narrating a fake story about some electrician”.
“We have taken the boy under custody and further probe is underway,” the police official said.
In a similar incident in March, a resident of Thane in Mumbai was stabbed to death by three friends allegedly over enmity while playing a PUBG game. Police arrested one accused and held two juveniles in the matter.
The deceased Sahil Jadhav, a resident of Vartak Nagar in Thane city, was stabbed by his friends Pranav Mali and two other juveniles after they had a fight while playing PUBG.
A senior officer from Vartak Nagar police station said, “The three accused under the influence of alcohol got hold of Sahil near his house and stabbed him after enmity while playing PUBG.”
The three accused stabbed Sahil over 10 times and the victim died on the spot. The body has been sent for postmortem, added the police official.
