Sundara Devi, was killed yesterday by her younger son, Shyam, over a plot of land which the victim had received from her paternal side, police said.
Shyam hit her mother with bricks while she had gone to relieve herself near the pond fearing that she would give all her property to his elder brother, police said, adding that the victim died on the spot and her body was discovered by the villagers.
The body has been sent for postmortem and the blood-stained brick has been recovered from the spot, they said.