Noida teen used bat to kill mother, sister: Cops

GREATERNOIDA: A16-year-old teenager hooked to a violent video game killed his mother and sister at their Greater No ida apartment with a cricket bat and then disfigured their faces with a pair of scissors and a pizza cutter, police said on Saturday.

The juvenile— who cannot be named for legal reasons — was detained from Varanasi on Friday and has confessed to murdering his mother (42) and sister (11) on December 4 at their 14th floor apartment in Greater Noida West, said Love Kumar, the Gautam Budh Nagar senior superintendent of police. The accused was produced in a juvenile court in Noida on Saturday and later sent to an observation home.

The boy’s parents often scolded him for his low grades in school and he had a fierce rival ry with his sister, a Class 6 student, who was outstanding in her studies, police quoted him as saying.

As his parents allegedly used to cite her as an example to belittle him, the Class 10 student thought his parents did not love him, police added. The murders are among rising crimes by minors across India that experts attribute to societal changes.

“No reason can explain the boy’s actions. It’s rather a reflection of our society that encourages aggression ,” said Sa mir Parikh, director of the department of mental health and behavioural sciences at Fortis Healthcare.

“Just take a look at all the trolling, sledging during international games that is praised, the kind of discourse and television debates, our reality television and even our games...a child is surrounded by violence everywhere,” he added.

Data for 2016 released by the National Crime Records Bureau shows a rise in juvenile crimes over the previous year, with Uttar Pradesh placed 8th among allstate sin the number of minors arrested.

Among metropolitan centres, Delhi stood at number one among 19 cities, the NCRB data show. Greater Noida West falls under the NCR.

Love Kumar said the boy took Rs two lakh in cash kept at his parent’ s bedroom locker and fled the city, travelling aimlessly from one place to another.

“As soon as he got down from one train, he would get confused on what to do next. Hence he kept boarding whichever train was in front of him,” Kumar said.

On the night of the incident, his father—a businessman—was in Surat on work and his grandparents were in De hr ad unto attend a wedding.

The immediate trigger for the murders was his mother scolding the boy on the afternoon of December 4.