Erode: A 45-year-old woman was sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court at Gopichettipalayam in the district for killing her son for marrying a girl from another caste in 2014.
Third Additional Sessions Judge Balakrishnan sentenced the woman to life imprisonment yesterday.
The prosecution case was that the woman's 20-year-old son, a hosiery worker at a unit in Tirupur had married a girl of another caste without his mother's knowledge
On March 28 2014, he came to his mother's house at Nanjagoundenpalayam and stayed there. That night, she smashed his head with a stone and he died on the spot.
The woman was later arrested.
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