: Vibha Matta, the mother of murder accused Rahul, still cannot believe that she has lost her husband over a property dispute.
Speaking to The Hindu , Ms. Matta said on Tuesday that her husband Ravinder was ready to part with his house and all other assets to ensure peace in the family and pacify their son.
Surrounded by relatives in the drawing room of the house where Rahul murdered his father two days ago and forced his mother lock herself for safety, Ms. Matta is at a loss for words. The house is said to be at the centre of the dispute between the father and the son.
“Matta Saab (her late husband) did everything to keep Rahul’s temper in check. As far as I can recall, neither of us ever hit our children. I would still lose my calm occasionally, but even till his last day, my husband did everything to sort things out with Rahul,” said Ms. Matta.
Father wanted peace
The incident has left Ms. Matta in a state of shock. All she remembers is her son’s behaviour and her husband’s replies on the day of the murder. “I remember my husband telling him ‘What do you want? If you want money take it, if you want this house take it. Your mother and I will shift and live somewhere else’. But everything all ended on such a brutal note,” she said. According to the police, Mr. Ravinder Matta had disowned Rahul from his Ajanta Apartments property and since then he had been threatening his parents.
Joginder Singh, a family friend, claimed that the family had submitted a complaint to the police against Rahul, but Ms. Matta said her husband had not shared any such detail with her. Another issue that had affected the parents-son relationship was Rahul’s marriage to a woman that the family did not approve of. Ms. Matta chose not to comment on what the family had to say about the marriage, but said the woman approached the police several times when her husband was alive.
Wife calls him mad
“ Pagal tha wo, mujhe koi baat nahin karni (he was mad and I do not wish to talk about him),” said Rahul’s wife when The Hindu called her on Tuesday. Despite repeated requests, she did not share any more details on her husband’s mental state and the family’s reluctance to accept her.
