This Article is From Mar 07, 2012

Man murders stepmother

New Delhi: A 21-year-old man was arrested for allegedly murdering his stepmother with a butcher's chopper in North Delhi for ill-treating him and his polio-affected sister, police said on Tuesday.

Shalu killed his stepmother on March 4 in Malkaganj. He was arrested on Monday, police said.

"The woman was brutally murdered and multiple injuries were present on her head. There were many sharp and deep wounds on her head and some fragments of head were lying nearby," said a police official in a statement.

On the day of the incident, Shalu had a fight with his stepmother and later procured a chopper from a shop nearby and assaulted her.

Shalu's mother had died after which his father married the victim.

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