Mumbai man beats 80-year-old mother to death

Mumbai: A 55-year-old drunk man beat his 80-year-old bedridden mother to death in Colaba in south Mumbai, police said on Thursday.

According to police, victim Saraswati Keer had been bedridden for the past several years due to bad health.

Wednesday night, accused Ram Keer reached his house in Shanidev building in Colaba in a drunken state and began arguing with his wife.

He began thrashing his ailing mother with a stick after his wife ran out of the house fearing his wrath, police said adding when the wife returned home along with neighbours, the old lady was in unconscious state.

The elderly woman was taken to a nearby hospital where she was declared dead this morning, police said. Keer was on Thursday arrested on the murder charge.