Jajpur: In a gruesome incident, a youth allegedly mowed down his elderly grandmother with a mini truck over property dispute at a village in Panikoili area of Odisha’s Jajpur district.
As per information, the incident took place at Khandarapur-Singada village under the jurisdiction of Panikoili police station on Thursday when the 23-year-old man mowed down his grandmother Kuli Sahoo.
Villagers claimed that the deceased was not being taken care of by her son and was forced to stay at her married daughter’s place.
Unable to bear the physical and mental torture by her son, the elderly woman had filed a complaint with the local police and gifted part of her land parcels to her daughter, which triggered a property dispute, the locals said.
The incident occurred when the deceased was returning to her native place along with her daughter. The elderly woman died on the spot after being knocked down by the grandson’s vehicle while her daughter escaped narrowly, sources said, adding that the accused fled the spot with his vehicle after committing the crime.
On being informed, police reached the spot and took the woman’s body to the district headquarters hospital for postmortem. A case was registered based on the complaint of the daughter.
