A drug and alcohol addict youth raped his mother on Diwali night after putting a blade on her throat, threatening to kill her if she does not surrender to him, the police said on Saturday.
The youth involved in the “despicable act” was arrested on Friday on his mother's complaint, it said.
The incident occurred in a slum under Ghaziabad's Tilla More police station area on Thursday night when the youth reached home under the influence of liquor and drug and made advances towards his mother.
Aghast at her son's behaviour, when the woman, a domestic aide, objected to her son's act, the youth whipped out a sharp knife and put it on her neck to overpower her.
As the hapless woman kept resisting her son's act, he increased the pressure on the knife's blade and threatened to slit her throat if she does not surrender to him meekly, senior police officer Gyanendra Singh said, quoting from the woman's complaint.
After being subjected to the “despicable act”, the woman managed to reach the police station and lodge the complaint against her son, who was arrested the following day, Mr Singh said.
Crying bitterly over her fate of being raped by her own son, the woman told police that she never imagined even in her dream that she would meet such a fate, Mr Singh said.
Working as a domestic aide in her area, the woman had been left even by her husband who too is a druggist, never caring for his wife, Gyanendra Singh said.
“My husband lives in Rampur district and he is also on drugs. He never gives money to run the house. I worked as domestic help and nurtured my four children. I never thought that my son will rape me,” the woman told the police.
About her son, she told police that his son has been living in a bad company and become a drug addict.
“He would always keep a knife with himself and a blade in his mouth. He is cruel by nature and prone to picking up fights with local people,” she told police.
On her complaint, police sent her for medical examination and managed to arrest the youth the following day, Mr Singh said.
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