Chandigarh, March 8 (IANS): A mentally disturbed man axed his mother to death in a village in Haryana's Charkhi Dadri district on Sunday, police said.
The accused was identified as Sunil and he was absconding after the crime that was reported in Bhandwa village on Saturday night.
The victim, Suman Devi, was found lying in a pool of blood by her husband Samar Sein.
The cause of crime is yet to be known.
The police have registered a case against Sunil Kumar under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code on the complaint of the victim's brother.
The police said the accused was mentally disturbed for quite some time.