MUMBAI, Feb 24: A man hailing from Meghalaya, who was residing in Mumbai, was reportedly killed after getting fatally injured subsequent to a fall at his residence. His 70-year-old mother, on the other hand, spent an entire night beside her son’s body and attended to his wounds, believing that he is alive.
According to the police, the incident took place in the wee hours of Monday when the 42-year-old, who was in an inebriated state, fell in the bathroom at their home in Kalina area, Mumbai. It was after this the man, whose identity has not been revealed till the filing of the report, received fatal head injuries.
After some time, when the woman saw him lying there motionless, she dragged him out of the bathroom and laid him next to her elder son, who is also bed-ridden, according to the police. Believing him to be alive, she applied turmeric powder on the victim’s injuries.
Next morning, when he did not wake up, the woman informed her relatives who rushed to her house. The family members alerted the police who reached the spot and took the victim to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead, police said.
The victim had been out of work following the coronavirus-induced lockdown and the family was facing a monetary crunch, police added. “On the basis of primary information, we have registered an accidental death report and an investigation is under way into the case,” Assistant Commissioner of Police, Vakola Division, Avinash Dharmadhikari, said. (PTI)
