Chennai: Engineering graduate stabs mother to death with pair of scissors

Chennai: Unable to land a proper job, a depressed engineering graduate stabbed her mother multiple times, in Anakaputhur, on Easter afternoon. The victim succumbed to the injuries at Chrompet GH while her 26-year-old daughter was arrested by Shankar Nagar police.

Police said Vanaja, (58), a resident of Gurusamy Nagar, Anakaputhur, who eked out a living by tailoring following her husband Balusubramanian’s death, managed to fund her daughter Gayathri’s engineering education by arranging finance from several sources. Despite graduation, the woman could not get a proper job. She quit jobs which were on consolidated pay. Gayathri who was upset over her career was stated to be suffering from depression and was under medication.

The mother-daughter quarrelled over a petty issue on Sunday afternoon and it culminated in Gayathri grabbing a pair of scissors from her mother and stabbing her with it. Gayathri sought 108 ambulance service and rushed her mother to Chrompet GH. Vanaja did not respond to treatment.

Preliminary investigation suggested that Gayathri and her mother were at loggerheads over the prospects of the former in employment as well as in choosing her life-partner.

The deceased’s elder daughter was married off a few years ago. Nobody from the family has lodged a complaint yet. The body has been kept in the mortuary for post-mortem and for the arrival of the kin. Gayathri was remanded to judicial custody by a court at Tambaram and was lodged at Central Prison, Puzhal.