He wanted people to believe that his 62-year-old mother Madhomatee Mungrah, née Golap, perished in a house fire in Ville Noire, Mahebourg early Sunday morning, August 6. But an autopsy carried out on the afternoon of Sunday August 6 revealed that the victim succumbed to a fractured skull, before her body was completely charred. The victim’s son, Vidoor Mungrah, a drug addict, was placed under arrest in the early evening of the same day.
A team of police officers from the Mahebourg Police Station and the Criminal Investigation Division, led by Superintendent of Police Mahendradeosingh Surnam and Assistant Superintendent of Police Satiajev Callychurn, arrived at the Mungrah family home in Fabien Road, Ville Noire, Mahebourg, at 7.25am on Sunday August 6. When the police arrived, firefighters were already there. One of these officers informed them that a fire had broken out in a bedroom and that the body of a woman, Madhomantee Mungrah, had been discovered burnt to a crisp on the floor beside her bed after the fire had been brought under control.
The victim’s son, Vidoor Mungrah, told the investigators that his mother lived alone on the first floor and he on the first floor of the house. The skull and bones belonging to the victim were removed from this room on the instructions of Dr Prem Chamane, Principal Police Medical Officer. They were taken to the Victoria Hospital morgue in Candos for an autopsy. He attributed the cause of death to a fractured skull.
The suspect had already assaulted his mother, police learned. In fact, the police learned, he regularly quarreled with his mother over money. Separated from her husband for years, the latter also lives upstairs with his son. The latter, who is single, has a married sister.
This investigation was subsequently referred to the men of the Major Crime Investigation Team (MCIT) of the Southern Division, led by Inspector Satish Ramjheetun.
