Pune: A 25-year-old man allegedly bludgeoned his 75-year-old grandmother to death with a water jar on Thursday morning in Charholi.Dighi police said the accused was sleeping when his grandmother woke him up talking loudly. In a fit of rage, he murdered her. The father of the accused lodged a complaint with Dighi police.An officer from Dighi police said the victim was bedridden. “On Thursday around 9 am, she defecated inside the house and was calling out loudly for someone to come help her. The accused was sleeping at that time. He got agitated at the apparent noise that was being made. He picked up a water jar and hit her on the head with it and further banged her head on the floor. The woman sustained severe injuries.”The accused’s father took the woman to a nearby hospital, where doctors pronounced her dead. The accused initially claimed it was an accident. However, after the post-mortem report, it was confirmed that the woman had been murdered.The accused has been arrested under sections 103 (murder) and 238 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
