ABOVE: Told to go to school, minor son kills mother, misleads father

The minor son of a scientist has allegedly confessed to killing his mother in their home in Gorakhpur, days after he misled his father and police by claiming she died in an accidental fall, officials said .

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Aarti Verma died after her son, a class 11 student, pushed her and her head hit a wall on December 3, police said.

The revelation came to light during a thorough investigation, Superintendent of Police (North) Jitendra Kumar Srivastava said.

“After two hours of questioning, the teenager admitted to pushing his mother during an argument, which resulted in a fatal head injury,” he said.

When Aarti’s husband Ram Milan, an assistant scientist at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center in Chennai, found her phone switched off for two days, he sent his sister-in-law to check the house on December 7.

The house was locked from the outside. On returning to Gorakhpur the following evening, Milan found his wife’s body on the floor, police said.

Their son, found near a Shiva temple, initially told the police and his father that his mother had died after a fall. He claimed he locked the house from the outside in a panic and wandered aimlessly for four days, police said.

However, the post-mortem report contradicted his account, they said.

Further investigations raised suspicions as bloodstains were found in two different places, indicating that the body had been dragged.

CCTV footage confirmed that no stranger had entered the house, according to police.

Police allegedly recovered large amounts of cash in denominations of Rs 500, Rs 200 and Rs 100 from the boy’s room, they said.

“During interrogation, the boy confessed on Tuesday evening that on the morning of December 3, his mother asked him to go to school. When he refused, a dispute over money ensued, and his mother threw cash at him in frustration,” he said Srivastava. .

“In a fit of rage, he pushed her, causing her fatal injury,” he added.

The teenager was detained, police added.