Daijiworld Media Network - Sullia (SP)

Sullia, Mar 6: Relating to the recovery of the body of a woman named Muttamma (44), who was reported missing, in the thicket behind her own house in Meladtale in Arantodu villae in the taluk, her son, Jeevan, confessed to the policemen that he was the culprit. In a written statement given to the policemen, Jeevan, who himself had filed a missing complaint about his mother, said that he killed his mother and buried her body behind his house, as he was upset over her addictions, spending, and criminal behaviour.

Muttamma was murdered with the help of a sickle on February 24. Jeevan had filed the missing complaint on March 3, at the advice of his friends. The fact that she had been murdered had come to light on Sunday March 4, after the concerned began search operations.

“I have already spent a lot on the treatment on my father, who fell from a tree over a year back, and continues to be hospitalized. My mother was in jail for two months recently, after she stabbed a person.  I spent heavily to secure bail for her. She continued to spend heavily towards preparation and consuming of liquor at home, and for smoking cigarettes. That day, after verbal altercation on these issues, she menacingly proceeds towards me with a sickle in hand. I too swished my sickle, and she was gravely injured. If she had survived, I would have had to spend towards her treatment too. So I used the sickle once again on her to kill her on the spot,” he has explained.

After burying the body of his mother in a place dug up for sawing timber, Jeevan had piled dry hay on the spot and set it on fire. As the body was not buried deep enough, it bloated and gave out foul smell in course of time.

Jeevan, who was produced in the local court on Monday, was remanded to judicial custody. Jeevan, who was compelled to stay for a prolonged in the hospital to look after his ailing father, was absorbed as a room boy by the same hospital sometime back.