CHENNAI: A mother, who felt guilty that her boy took his life because she didn’t get him the motorbike of his dreams, immolated herself to death before the son’s funeral got over on Tuesday. Kizhkottaiyur, a village in Kancheepuram, is yet to recover from the double shock.Police said Indrani, 45, a domestic help who lost her husband a few years ago, was inconsolable at the funeral of her son Govindarajan, 16, who hanged himself on Sunday. The teenager had been asking for a motorbike worth Rs1.5 lakh. “When Indrani told him that she couldn’t afford it, the boy asked for the chit money that she had been saving,” said a policeman. “She refused, saying she was saving for his and his brother’s studies. She also told him that he was too young to ride such a bike .”Govindarajan kept pestering his mother, and when she didn’t yield, he stopped eating and talking to her.“She kept wailing that she tried her best to convince the boy that he should wait for the bike. She thought he will get back to normal within a few days,” said the policeman quoting a neighhour.On Sunday, when she returned home after working at a house nearby, she found Govindarajan had locked himself in a room. She knocked and called out repeatedly, but there was no response. She peeped through the keyhole and saw the boy hanging. Police handed over the body after the postmortem, and the funeral happened on Tuesday. “Before the funeral got over, she rushed home, locked herself in a room and immolated herself,” police said.

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