Suicide drama, mobile phone note: How was the engineering student who killed his mother identified?
Bhageshree Rawat
BBC Marathi
January, 03, 2025
On December 26, Aruna was at her home when her son suddenly strangled her to death. After killing his mother, Utkarsh locked the bedroom from outside and waited for his father.
When 50-year-old Laladhar returned home in the evening, he went straight to the bathroom before going to the bedroom. Utkarsh followed him and attacked him with a knife.
The injured Laladhar said to his son, “What happened to you? Let’s talk to your mother.” He was unaware that his wife, 42-year-old Aruna, had already been killed by his son.
Utkarsh confessed to his crime and told Laladhar that he had killed his mother. Just as Laladhar was trying to come to terms with the fact that his son stabbed him again. This time, Laladhar could not control himself and within a short time, he too was dead.
But why did 24-year-old engineering student Utkarsh kill his parents? The incident, details of which came to light six days later, took place in the Kapil Nagar police station limits of Nagpur, India.
BBC Marathi spoke to Nagpur Deputy Police Commissioner Niketan Kadam about the incident, who said that Laladhar worked in a power plant while his wife taught at a school.
Switched off mobile phone
According to the police, Utkarsh's sister was not at home that day. Utkarsh switched off his dead father's mobile phone and left the house, putting it in his pocket.
He went to his sister, who was in college, and told her that his parents had to go to Bangalore and that they both had to go to an uncle's house in the meantime. But Utkarsh's sister was not convinced and started calling her father. But the phone was switched off.
Laladhar worked in a power plant while his wife taught in a school.
Utkarish called his father's phone to convince his sister and sent him a WhatsApp message from his father saying that he was going to Bangalore and would return on January 5.
Thus, his sister was convinced and they both went to their uncle's house.
How did he come to know about the murder?
Laladhar's two brothers lived near his house. When the neighbors of the deceased Laladhar started smelling a strange smell from the house, they also became alert.
Thus, through the neighbors and Laladhar's brothers, the information reached Utkarish, and on December 31, he suddenly reached his uncle's house and started crying. He said that he had been having bad dreams about his parents.
Before the matter reached the police, Utkarsh went to the house and put his father's mobile phone on a table and pretended that his parents had committed suicide.
Suicide note written on the mobile phone
Utkarsh himself had written a note on his father's phone saying, 'My children, I am sorry that we have taken this step. Don't tell the police, just perform our last rites.'
But Utkarsh himself had also told everyone that his parents had gone to Bangalore. In such a situation, the police's first suspicion fell on him and he was taken into custody. When questioned at the Kapilnagar police station, he gave vague answers.
However, according to the police, Utkarsh later confessed to the crime during the investigation process.
Why did the son kill his parents?
But why did Utkarsh do this? According to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, the reason was that Utkarsh, who had been studying engineering for six years, was failing repeatedly.
Utkarsh's parents had decided to employ him in some other job, but the son was not listening to their parents. On December 25th, there was a lot of bitter talk about this matter.
According to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, the engineer, who had been studying engineering for six years, was repeatedly failing.
According to him, ‘Utkarsh’s parents wanted him to do farming but the argument escalated. Things escalated to the point that Utkarsh bought a knife and when his sister went to college, he first killed his mother and then killed his father with a knife.’
According to the police, Utkarsh’s sister said that her parents had never beaten their son and fulfilled his every wish. However, Utkarsh claimed in the police investigation that his father beat him on December 25 when the fight had escalated.
But why do children take such extreme steps?
Dr. Manish Thackeray is a psychologist at Nagpur Medical College who says, ‘When someone does not get something according to their wishes and they become impatient, then they are emotionally affected.’
He has also examined such minor accused who were involved in murder cases. He says, “This happens in a state of anger or in children who are facing some psychological illness.”
“Such children do not follow the norms of society.”
Dr. Parveen is also a psychologist, according to whom some children, whose frontal lobe of the brain is not developed properly, act without thinking.
“They do not know what they are going to do because it is the frontal lobe that can stop our actions.”
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