A 17-year-old coaching student, who murdered his landlady here as he was upset by her complaints to his parents, has been arrested in Mathura.
The dead body of a 69-year-old widow identified as Prem Lata Singhvi was recovered early on Wednesday morning from her house in Talwandi area under Jhawharnagar police station of Kota city.
The accused, along with his friends, killed the woman and fled with her car and valuables, Kota City SP Swai Singh Godara said.
Three minors aged between 16-17 years have been arrested, two for committing the offence and one for eliminating the evidences, after they were detained in Mathura.
The prime accused, a native of Fatehpur in UP, had been attending IIT coaching at an institute in Kota for a year and was living in a rented room in the house of the woman.
The boy, along with his other friends, instead of attending classes regularly, had been creating nuisance.
The landlady had complained of the boy's behaviour on the phone to his parents in his hometown following which the boy was scolded by his parents, the SP said, adding, this led the boy to harbour a feeling of revenge against the woman and he made up his mind to teach her a lesson.
The two minor boys on the night of the crime on Tuesday, entered the woman's bedroom and first attacked her with a cricket bat but when she resisted, the two tied her hands with a 'Chunni' and a belt and choked her to death.
The motive of the crime was not robbery or loot as the boy belongs to a well off family but revenge and to teach a lesson to the landlady, Godara said.
After the murder, the accused took the car parked in the porch and fled to Mathura the next morning. The two sought help from one of their friends in Mathura, also a minor, who arranged a room in a hotel in the city and also changed the car's number plate.
The three minors were detained from Mathura and were yesterday produced before the juvenile court that sent the three to a children's reformation home while the car and the other items were also recovered, the officer said.
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