Panaji Apr 18 PTI A 50-year-old woman suffering from some mental illness was arrested for allegedly killing her 76-year-old father in South Goas Ambaulim village police said on Monday The incident occurred on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday after the accused Marianne Cardoso returned home after attending prayers for Easter which was celebrated on Sunday She attacked her father Fidelis Mariano Pedda with a wooden club when he was asleep a Cuncolim police official said Mariannes mother had gone to her sisters place at the time of the incident The accused has been arrested and sent to the Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour as she was already undergoing treatment for her mental situation the official said Police said Marianne has been living with her father after her divorce in the year 2000 The immediate trigger behind the murder cannot be known the official said Police have registered a case of murder and further investigation is underway PTI RPS NSK NSK
Panaji Nov 18 PTI A mentally unstable man allegedly attacked his 85-year-old mother with a knife in South Goa district after a petty fight police said on Thursday The incident took place on Tuesday at their home in Navelim village following which the woman who received injuries on her hands was admitted to the Goa Government Medical College and Hospital near here an official from Margao police station said The police arrested the 49-year-old accused the same day and registered a case against him under Indian Penal Code Section 326 voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means he said The accused was later produced before a magistrate who referred him to the state-run Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour the police said PTI RPS GK GK
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