A 44-year-old jobless man, M.B, was arrested within a few hours after stabbing his 66-year-old mother to death while she was on her way home.

Police said the deceased, V. K, a retired health department superintendent, was returning home after giving food to her son M.B. when he attacked her with a knife.

The woman’s husband, said in his police complaint said that his son, a BTech graduate, previously worked for a multinational IT firm and lived in a different house in the same colony since September 2021. The couple used to bring food to their son twice a day, he said.

“On Thursday, when she did not return till 8.30pm, I went looking for her near the park and saw her talking to him. Both of them were talking loudly. After my wife told me to leave, I returned home and sat in a chair outside the gate. Suddenly, I heard some noise, went towards the park and saw my wife lying in a pool of blood and my son fleeing the spot,”.

With the help of neighbours, he rushed his wife to a private hospital, which referred her to a Civil hospital, where doctors declared her brought dead.

Dr Deepak Mathur, the forensic expert who conducted the autopsy, said the woman died due to excessive bleeding. “There were three stab wounds, two on the neck and one on the chest,” he said.