Lucknow: Prayagraj police arrested a 20-year-old man on Thursday night after he was found carrying the body of his mother stuffed in a suitcase in the Daraganj area of the district.
The accused, Himanshu Kumar, a resident of Gopalganj in Bihar, confessed to police that he strangled his mother Pratibha Devi (42) in a fit of rage after she refused to give him Rs 5,000, on December 13 at their rented accommodation in Aryanagar locality of Haryana’s Hisar district.
Himanshu stuffed his mother’s body in a suitcase and came to Prayagraj to immerse it in the river Ganga.
The deceased worked in a cotton mill, while Himanshu was pursuing his graduation. His father works in Bihar.
DCP (city) Deepak Bhuker said “A police team on night patrolling spotted a man between Akshayvat and Sangam zone, carrying a trolley bag at around 2.40am. Sensing something fishy, the cops intercepted him and checked his luggage. On recovering the body inside the trolley bag, the police team took the youth into custody.”
Prayagraj police informed their Hisar counterparts and a murder case was registered against the youth.
