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After father’s death, mother called her son, he started asking for Rs 1.5 lakh… then the woman herself lit herself on fire.

When the son did not listen, wife Parvati herself decided to burn her husband.

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Called him several times and asked him to come home. Told my mother to sell the house and give me the money. He used to quarrel with his father by demanding money.

Naiduniya, Shahdol (Shahdol News). In Beohari of the district, a son did not kill his father because his mother did not give him money. Parvati Burman, resident of ward number 11 Kachhiyan Tola, wife Ramswaroop Burman (65) has a son and two daughters. The only son Manoj Burman (31) is married.

used to quarrel with his father by demanding money

Every day he used to fight with his parents demanding money. After this, when his demand for money was not met, he separated and started living in a rented house with his family in Beohari. Even a day before his father’s death, he had come to his parents’ house and was demanding Rs 1.5 lakh. But the mother refused saying that she did not have money. Angered by this, he left from there in the night itself.

Father died due to illness

Next morning Manoj’s father dies due to illness. The mother, while talking to her son on mobile, informed him of his father’s death and asked him to come home quickly, but the son was so blinded by the greed for money that he did not feel any regret after hearing the news of his father’s death. He bluntly told his mother to send him money only then he will come home otherwise not.

Told my mother to sell the house and give me the money

The mother cried and said, ‘Son, I don’t have any money right now and you are insisting on money at such a time. Your father’s dead body is present in the house. The son’s heart did not melt and he even told his mother to sell the house and give him the money, otherwise he would not come to offer funeral pyre to his father.

I called him several times and asked him to come home.

Apart from his mother, Manoj’s wife also called him several times and asked him to go home, but he did not go home. He switched off his mobile after some time. When the son did not listen, wife Parvati herself decided to burn her husband. Two days after her husband’s funeral, Parvati along with her daughters Sushma and Suman lodged a complaint at Beohari police station.