The woman, who had been shifted to Safdarjung Hospital, died on Friday, said police. (Representational)New Delhi: A 53-year-old man was arrested for allegedly assaulting his elderly mother over a property dispute in Dwarka area, leading to her death, police said on Sunday.The woman, identified as Angoori Devi, 76, died in the Safdarjung Hospital on Friday, they said.Police were first informed of the quarrel and injury to the woman on Thursday by the DDU hospital where the woman was first admitted by her son-in-law Manoj Kumar.The hospital authorities told police that an elderly woman belonging to Uttam Nagar was admitted to the hospital by her son-in-law, a senior police officer said.On reaching the hospital, the police found that the woman had received injuries on her head and arm and was unfit to give her statement, the officer said.The police subsequently lodged an FIR against the woman’s son Bhagwan Dass, a resident of Mohan Garden, under section 308 (attempt to commit culpable homicide) of the Indian Penal Code.Dass was arrested and produced before a court which remanded him in judicial custody, the officer said.A preliminary probe into the matter revealed that there was a scuffle among the woman’s children out of her two marriages over property distribution in which the woman was severely hurt, police said.Meanwhile, the woman who had been shifted to Safdarjung Hospital for further treatment died on Friday evening following which the police added the IPC section 304 pertaining to culpable homicide not amounting to murder in the FIR lodged against Dass.(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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