Printed on: Aug 01, 2025 04:21 am IST
The accused, who’s hooked on cellular gaming, reportedly misplaced a number of lakhs of rupees and took loans from his kinfolk.
A 24-year-old man has been arrested in Rajasthan’s Sriganganagar district for allegedly killing his 86-year-old grandmother, as she used to scold him for his dependancy to on-line gaming, police mentioned on Thursday.
Sriganganagar SP Amrita Duhan mentioned Manish Chugh, the accused, killed his grandmother Draupadi Devi on July 24 by strangling her with a towel and later tried to stage the crime as a theft.
Chugh initially filed a grievance on the Purani Abadi police station, claiming that unidentified individuals murdered his grandmother and looted valuables.
Nevertheless, on sustained interrogation, Chugh confessed to the crime, the SP mentioned.
Chugh, who’s hooked on cellular gaming, reportedly misplaced a number of lakhs of rupees and took loans from his kinfolk.
On the day of the crime, he misplaced ₹15,000 for which his grandmother reprimanded him. In a match of rage, he killed her and fled with money and gold jewelry from the home, police mentioned.
