Accused was ‘fed up’ with lockdown

GOTA MURDER CASE

Accused was ‘fed up’ with lockdown

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad:  03.11.2020  

Nearly a week after she killed her mother-inlaw in a Gota flat, the woman revealed various facets of the case. She told police that she was ‘fed up’ with the lockdown and the victim’s diktats of taking bath every time she went out and also to remain indoors.

A Sola police station official said that the accused, Nikita Agrawal (30), who is onemonth-pregnant, stated that she was frustrated with her mother-in-law and deceased Rekha Agarwal’s instructions of not crossing the boundary walls of her house.

“She told us that she had barely gone outside from their house around five to six times as her mother-in-law ordered her to stay indoors. Besides, whenever she went out or met anyone, her mother-in-law would force her to take bath,” said an official from Sola police station. The official said that the elderly woman was suffering with obsessive compulsive disorder for which she was taking treatment from a city-based psychiatrist. Due to her mental illness, she could not mix up with her daughter-in-law. Nikita, who is originally from Beawar in Rajasthan, killed Rekha as the latter suspected that Nikita’s pregnancy was the result of her illicit relationship with her father-inlaw Ramniwas Agrawal.

She said that her mother-in-law tried to hit her with an iron rod which she snatched from her hand and hit on her head, resulting in her death.

Nikita was sent to judicial custody after her remand was over on Saturday.

The woman killed her mother-inlaw in a flat near Gota