Police recovered a 77-page suicide note from his home (Agent)
New Delhi:
A 25-year-old man allegedly killed his mother and sat with the body for three days before dying by killing himself at their home in Budh Vihar, Delhi on Sunday.
The man, Kshitij, left a 77-page suicide note in which he detailed how and why he killed his mother, as well as his battle with depression, according to police. .
Kshitij strangled his mother, Mithilesh, and slit her throat on Thursday, police said. His father passed away 10 years ago.
He stayed with his mother’s body for three days and used deodorant to cover the odor, police said, citing the note.
“He said that from a young age he was lonely and had no friends. He also wrote about his father and the problems he had with him. After his father passed away, he said his mother didn’t give him money and neither he nor he, a policeman said.
The letter said his mother had “been through a lot and he wanted to free her,” the official said.
Kshitij writes that the first time he strangled his mother with a chain. After 10 minutes, he slit her throat because he had read somewhere that “the soul will not achieve salvation if a person is strangled,” police said. He appears to have read a chapter in the Bhagavad Gita and sprinkled ‘Ganga Jal’ or holy water on his mother’s body in order for her to achieve salvation, they added.
On Sunday, Kshitij received a call from his mother’s friend, a neighbor, around 7pm. He told her that his mother had passed away three days ago and that he was going to kill himself too. He also told her the body was in the house, police said.
The shocked neighbor immediately informed the police, who then arrived and broke into their home. Police found his mother’s “highly decomposing” body in the restroom, while Khitij’s body was found in a room.
The suicide note said Kshitij had been depressed for a while and could not bear the medical expenses for his mother and himself because he was unemployed.
Kshitij’s father, Shri Niwas, is a retired government official. Police said that after his death, the mother and daughter lived on his monthly allowance.
