Ujjain: A woman and her daughter-in-law rained fatal blows on a patwari or land record official accused in the murder of her husband and son inside the court premises in Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh on Monday, police said.
Sources said on Monday evening the older woman, in her 50s, and her daughter-in-law had come to Ujjain district court for hearing of a case in which patwari Ramesh Nigam was accused in the murders.
Nigam, a brother-in-law of the woman, was on bail in this case.
The women and the patwari started arguing and the two women took their sandals in their hands and started beating Nigam till he fell down and died. Police intervened and took the man to a doctor, who declared him dead.
Police said the incident is the outcome of long family dispute in which the patwari was an accused for killing the woman's husband and son.
"The patwari is brother of the woman's husband Mahesh Nigam. Mahesh and his son were killed in March, 2011 and Ramesh was an accused. We have taken both women in custody and interrogation is going on," said Ujjain superintendent of police Rakesh Gupta.
Sources said on Monday evening the older woman, in her 50s, and her daughter-in-law had come to Ujjain district court for hearing of a case in which patwari Ramesh Nigam was accused in the murders.
Nigam, a brother-in-law of the woman, was on bail in this case.
Police said the incident is the outcome of long family dispute in which the patwari was an accused for killing the woman's husband and son.
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