NEW DELHI: Police have arrested a 38-year-old man for allegedly injuring his elderly mother in south Delhi’s Malviya Nagar for refusing to give him money to buy drugs. The accused had recently left a drug de-addiction centre and was getting repeated calls to return there to complete his treatment.
On Wednesday, police received a call, saying that a man had hit his mother and hurt her severely. She had been rushed to AIIMS Trauma Centre for treatment. The woman was identified as 60-year-old Santara Devi, and her son as Praveen, a resident of Begumpur in Malviya Nagar.
DCP (south) Atul Thakur said the woman was unfit to give a statement. “A preliminary medical examination revealed that she had been hit on her head with a metal object and has injuries on the rest of her body too,” he said.