BENGALURU: The family members of the physiotherapist, who allegedly killed her 71-year-old mother after administering her an overdose of BP tablets on Monday, were unaware of the matricide that was unfolding in one of the bedrooms of their flat.
Accused Sonali Sen’s husband was away at work, while her seven-year-old son and mother-in-law were in the other bedroom.
The accused in her statement to police said that after strangling her mother Biya Pal, she sat next to the body for nearly an hour and finally decided to surrender to police.
Taking Pal’s blue suitcase, Sonali first placed a picture of her mother in it and stuffed the body into it after folding the legs and hands.
Pal was around five feet tall and weighed around 40kg.
Dragging the suitcase, Sonali walked out of her house without informing her mother-in-law and son. She entered the elevator and came down to the ground floor. Sonali had already booked an auto through an app.
Woman asked for senior cop, watched as bag was opened Around 2pm on Monday, a woman alighted from an autorickshaw outside Mico Layout police station and wheeled in a trolley suitcase.
A constable at the entrance asked the woman, later identified as Bilekahalli resident Sonali Sen, about the purpose of her visit. The woman curtly said she wanted to meet a senior officer. “We assumed that she was a traveller who had lost something or someone might have robbed her of her valuables,” the constable and others at the station told mediapersons later.
The constable directed Sonali to sub-inspector Sanjeev Kumar’s chamber. Placing the suitcase near the entrance, Sonali, a physiotherapist, walked into Kumar’s chamber and spoke in Hindi: “Apni maa ko mara hai maine…body suitcase mein bahar hai ( I have killed my mother. . the body is in the suitcase kept outside. )”
It took Kumar a while to make sense of what Sonali was saying. On realising what might have happened, Kumar called inspector Girish and narrated the incident. By then, the news that the suitcase had a body in it spread at the station and everyone stood around it.
Girish then called DCP (south east) CK Baba, saying a woman was claiming to have killed her mother, 71-yearold Biya Pal, and had brought the body to the station in a suitcase.
“DCP Baba directed Girish to open it. We watched anxiously as the suitcase was opened. In it was the body of an old lady. It was a shocking and sad sight,” the staffers said.
Meanwhile, Sonali calmly stood near the door of Kumar’s chamber and watched the scene unfold. Turning back at the woman, Kumar as- ked her to sit inside the chamber and directed women cops to accompany her. Soon, an ambulance arrived and the body was shifted to St John’s hospital for autopsy. Kumar called Sonali’s husband and informed him about his wife killing her mother.
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