bengaluru he killed his mother in a fit of anger and p anic but managed to put cops off his trail for almost two months he did not bargain for his conscience though wracked by guilt he turned restive sowing seeds of suspicion in neighbours who tipped off police on tuesday viveknagar cops arrested girish gahan 22 for killing his mother mylavathi anand 60 when she refused to give him rs 10000 to repair his motorbike on september 17 the murder happened in their residence in ejipura viveknagar central bengaluru the diploma in electronics dropout told police in his confession that he snatched his mothers gold chain as she refused to give him the money i pushed her to the wall and her head dashed against it she fell unconscious and i thought she will die any moment seeing her halfopened eyes and irregular breathing i strangled her as i was scared she may tell others what i did girish who quit a call centre job in june this year told police girish then gagged the woman a former employee of karnataka seeds corporation with her sari and pushed her body under the cot in the room recalling all that he had learnt from watching tv crime shows he sprinkled turmeric powder all over the house to ensure that his fingerprints didnt stay and sniffer dogs arent on his trail then he walked away the incident came to light when girishs elder sister homemaker yogita anand who lives nearby visited the house around 3pm and found her mother lying gagged below the cot the senior citizen opened her eyes wide and made a futile attempt to speak to her daughter but died instantly mylavathis husband anand a passport agent was not at home when the horror unfolded yogita alerted the police how cops cracked the case police had no clues to begin their probe and were unable to make any headway for days on end only one gold chain and a bangle were missing from the body first we thought it to be a murder for gain but the intact main door and the pet dog that neighbours said never barked told us that the assailant was someone well known to the victim a viveknagar police officer pointed out the postmortem report found that the woman had dosa and bean curry in the morning and they were not fully digested indicating that the crime took place between 1pm and 130pm girish had told us that he left home around 1230pm police said we checked the mobile tower location of girish and were shocked to find he was at home till 145 pm we began crosschecking with neighbours they said girish had become restive and appeared disturbed since his mothers death he would wander inside the house all night the night rarely ate and smoked endlessly we then picked him up and he cracked immediately after recording his confession girish said he was relieved at having come clean the police officer