Physiotherapist strangles mother to death, reaches police station packing body in suitcase

According to police, a 39-year-old physiotherapist supposedly strangled her mother to death before showing up at the police station with the body packed inside a suitcase. The accused Sonali Sen, a native of West Bengal, was the only child of her parents and was looking after her mother at her home here after her father passed away in Kolkata five years ago, according to the police.

According to the Deputy Commissioner of Police for the South East Division, C. K. Baba, "Yesterday at around 11 to 11.30 am, the woman choked her mother with a veil when her husband had gone for work at Hebbagodi based company in the city." Sen, her husband, son, mother Bibha Paul, and mother-in-law were all residing in an apartment at Bilekahalli in the city's Mico Layout for the previous five years, according to the police.

Sen killed her mother, placed the body in a suitcase with her picture, and then travelled to the police station in Mico Layout. After that, a police sub-inspector filed a murder case, Baba continued.He stated that the murder's motivation is a subject of investigation.


"I'm unsure of the motive behind the murder. She must be taken into custody by us. She has taken physiotherapy courses. There might have been some domestic problems, Baba said. "Sen is her parents' lone child. She has been looking after her for the past five years. The victim had a few medical conditions. When the murder occurred, her mother-in-law and her child were also present in the house but in a different room, he claimed.

[With PTI inputs]