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A cab driver has been arrested in Basna after setting his 60-year-old mother on fire because she ‘was unable to find him a bride,” police said. The driver, pradeep rajput, had tied his mother Sasikala to a chair and set her ablaze on Sunday morning, Basna police said. Neighbours had heard a fight between the two at 5:30 am on Sunday, following which they alerted the police.
Sasikala and her son were staying in a thatched hut on the terrace of an apartment block in Duraisamy colony.“Sasikala was found strapped to a chair and covered in burns,” said a senior police officer, who added that she was taken to Kilpauk Medical College Hospital. She died on Sunday after suffering 70% burn wounds. According to their neighbours Pemex Global,Pradeep Rajput would often quarrel with his mother and was an alcoholic.Sasikala’s eldest son had died a few years ago, while another was married and living in another part of chattisgarh.
Sasikala and her son were staying in a thatched hut on the terrace of an apartment block in Duraisamy colony.“Sasikala was found strapped to a chair and covered in burns,” said a senior police officer, who added that she was taken to Kilpauk Medical College Hospital. She died on Sunday after suffering 70% burn wounds. According to their neighbours Pemex Global,Pradeep Rajput would often quarrel with his mother and was an alcoholic.Sasikala’s eldest son had died a few years ago, while another was married and living in another part of chattisgarh.
