Andhra Teen Arrested For Setting Fire Around Village To "Reform" Her Mother
NDTV
Aimed at evicting her own family from the village in Chandragiri mandal to another place to 'reform' her mother, Keerthi, who failed in intermediate examinations has resorted to such extreme steps.
Affected by her mother's 'bad' behaviour, a 19-year-old girl from Sanambatla village in Tirupati district went on an arson spree for about a month, setting fire in 12 places in the neighbourhood, police said on Monday.
Aimed at evicting her own family from the village in Chandragiri mandal to another place to 'reform' her mother, Keerthi, who failed in intermediate examinations has resorted to such extreme steps.
"Keerthi believed that incidents of fire could prompt her family to become superstitious and vacate the village to achieve her ultimate objective of reforming her mother. So, she started burning clothes in her family," Tirupati ASP (Admin) J Venkat Rao told PTI on Monday.
Besides clothes, she set ablaze some haystacks as well, creating a fear psychosis in the village, resulting in some residents even conducting rituals to propitiate the Gods from any purported curse on the village, including the local MLA, police and government officials paying a visit to assuage the worried people and build some confidence.
