Mumbai: Man slits throat of his mother in Mulund; tries to kill himself by jumping before train

Mumbai: In a horrifying incident, a 22-year-old boy allegedly slit his mother’s throat in Mulund and later attempted to commit suicide by jumping in front of a local train.

As per the police, they had received a call in the control room on Friday evening stating there was blood flowing out of a room in a building located in the Vardhman Nagar area at Mulund West. After opening the door forcefully, a body of a lady was found in the hall room, with a slit throat, scrawled in blood.

“We questioned the neighbours to get more details about the victim. Upon searching the entire house, a letter was found, written in Gujarati, and a knife that was lying near the bathroom,” said a police official. The woman is assumed to be in her mid-forties and was killed using a sharp object by slitting her neck.

After getting the details and whereabouts of her son and husband, the latter reached the spot. When the letter was shown to him which was identified as written by the son on the basis of the handwriting.

“The son was depressed according to the father and while finding out about his location, he got to know about him trying to commit suicide by jumping in front of a local train,” the official added.

He was later brought to a nearby hospital and is currently receiving treatments. As per the police, further interrogation will be resumed after he gets better to talk. A case has been filed at the Mulund police station for murder under the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Published on: Sunday, July 10, 2022, 08:04 AM IST