AGRA/FIROZABAD: Police on Saturday arrested a 22-year-old man for allegedly killing his mother after she refused to sign a no-objection certificate (NOC) which could have helped him get a job in railways after his father's death.

Identified as Gulshan Singh, the accused was arrested from Etmadpur tri-section on Friday afternoon. Later on his identification, police recovered the country-made gun, from railway tracks near NH-2, which he used to shoot his mother Baby Devi on September 19 at her house on Tel Mill road in

district.

Superintendent of police Rajesh Kumar Singh said, “During interrogation, the accused claimed that in 2009, his mother Baby Devi in connivance with her paramour Gajendar killed his father Ramvir Singh (40), who was a fourth-grade railway employee. Later after the jail term, Baby and Gajendar started living together. She was also given pension of her deceased husband. Last week, when accused asked her to sign NOC in order to get the job in place of his father, the woman refused and infuriated Gulshan shot her dead.”

Baby Devi is survived with a four-year-old son from Gajendar, and two sons from her first husband Ramvir.