AHMEDABAD: A 48-year-old woman allegedly killed her 21-yearold stepson, Hardik Patel, by strangling him on Tuesday, stuffing his body in a sack and dumping it at Kunjad village of Daskroi taluka in Ahmedabad, officers of Kanbha police said on Saturday.
Police officers said that the accused, Gauri Patel, told them that she had also killed her own 11-year-old son 15 years ago. She married Hardik’s father Rajnikant about seven years ago.
Hardik’s younger brother, Umang Patel, who runs a dairy in Kanbha, stated in his FIR that Gauri and Hardik often fought over money.
She had borrowed Rs 25 lakh from relatives saying Hardik had suffered losses. When these relatives began asking Hardik for the money, he objected to her taking money from them and spending it on herself.
On Tuesday, when Hardik was asleep alone at home as Umang had gone to his dairy, Gauri along with her three relatives — Sanjay, Anil and Dinesh — strangled him with a rope, said DySP K T Kamaria.
