By NNN-PTI,
Meerut/Lucknow, India : Former beauty queen Priyanka, arrested on the charge of murdering her parents, was driven to the act after being meted out ill-treatment by her mother, she along with police suggested.
“My mother (Santosh) abused me. She said ‘so what if I had been raped. It happens. She raised her hand on me, which is when I put hand on her neck and pressed. I didn’t kill her intentionally”, Priyanka, who along with her friend Anju, was sent to 14-day judicial custody by a local court today, told CNN-IBN on Tuesay.
Priyanka confessed before the police that she was depressed over the alleged misbehaviour of her parents who had named her brother Gaurav in their will.
SP Meerut City Rakesh Jolly said that on the day of the incident Priyanka wanted to confess to her mother, weep before her and tell her how she is leading her life.
But the mother did not listen and made certain remarks against her “which probably infuriated her and she went for this extreme step and committed the murder”, Jolly said.
Both the girls, allegedly ill-treated by their families, had strangulated the aged couple Prem Veer and Santosh after picking up a quarrel with them, SSP Raghuveer Lal had said yesterday.
On reports that Priyanka had approached the National Commission for Women, which sent notice to the state police for not paying heed to her complaints regarding exploitation at home, Additional Director General (Law and Order) Brijlal said he was not aware of any such notice to the state police.
Uttar Pradesh state Home Secretary Kumar Kamlesh told PTI in Lucknow that the two girls would undergo counselling by medical experts in jail.