Ex-MP's son kills mom over property issue
Chennai, Apr 15 (UNI) In an act of matricide, a son of a former Member of Parliament (MP) murdered his mother at Besant Nagar area in the city over a property dispute on Sunday night.
The incident came to light on Monday morning.
Her son Praveen (35), wanted to sell the family’s ancestral property, which was resisted by his mother.
Police said Praveen, educated in the UK, had acted brutally in killing her as he attempted first to electrocute her, tied her hands and legs, gagged her and stabbed her several times in the chest at their residence in the posh Besant Nagar area.
The deceased Rathinam (63), was wife of late AIADMK MP Kolandavelu, who was elected in 1976 during MGR’s tenure.
For a month Rathinam was with her daughter Sudha (43) and her husband Aravind, both doctors in Tiruppur.
She returned home yesterday evening and was cleaning the house when Praveen too returned, murdered her and fled the scene.
Rathinam’s body was sent to the Government Royapettah Hospital for post mortem.
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