80-YEAR-OLD WOMAN DONE TO DEATH

An 80-year-old woman was beaten to death in her house in Borabanda in Sanathnagar on Tuesday night. She was repeatedly hit with a wooden pestle on the head. Her gold earrings, silver anklets and other valuables are missing, said the police.

The woman identified as Sundaramma, 80, lived in a small house in Balaji Nagar Colony in Borabanda. Her husband had died many years ago, and she received a pension of `15,000. Her three sons and a daughter lived separately. On Tuesday night, the neighbours noticed that the main door of Sundaramma's house was open. When they peeped inside they found her woman lying in a pool of blood and alerted the Sanathnagar police.

Based on the complaint lodged by the elder son, Ravi Kumar, a case of murder was registered by the police. After the autopsy at Gandhi Hospital mortuary, the body was handed over to her kin.

A preliminary investigation revealed that Sundaramma was renting out rooms and the police suspect that somebody took advantage of an old woman living on her own and robbed and killed her.

Balanagar ACP K Purushotham said that the woman was so badly beaten with the wooden pestle that it broke into pieces.

“It is found that Sundaramma was allowing unidentified persons in her house by charging some money. The residential area is not under electronic surveillance, but efforts are on to analyse the footage from cameras installed in the vicinity,” said the ACP.