Youth arrested for shooting mother who refused to sign NOC for job

AGRA/FIROZABAD: Tundla police arrested a 22-year-old youth on Saturday, who had shot his mother dead last week for not signing a no objection certificate (NOC), which could have helped him get a railway job after his father’s death.

Identified as Gulshan Singh, 22,, the accused was arrested from Etmadpur tri-section on Friday afternoon along with a motor-bike. Later, police recovered the a country-made weapon from a railway track near NH-2, which he used to shoot his mother Baby Devi with on September 19 afternoon at her resident on Tel Mill road, under the Tundla police jurisdiction of

Firozabad

district.

According to the superintendent of police, city, Rajesh Kumar Singh, said, “During interrogation, the accused claimed that in 2009, his mother Baby Devi in connivance with her paramour Gajendar killed his father Ramvir Singh (40), who was a fourth-grade railway employee. Later after jail term, Baby and Gajendar started living together. She was also given a pension. Last week, when the accused asked her mother to sign the NOC in order to get his father’s job, the woman refused and an infuriated Gulshan shot her dead.”

Baby Devi is survived by a four-year-old son from Gajendar, and two sons from her first husband Ramvir.


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