In a fit of anger, a 25-year-old man allegedly stabbed his 50-year-old mother to death after a minor spat this morning in the district's Kaithoon town, the police said.
The woman was a teacher at a government school in Barodiya village, SHO at the Kaithoon Police Station Pushpendra Singh Hada said.
The man stabbed the woman in her neck and she died on the spot, he said.
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The police have booked him under section 302 (murder) of the IPC. He was arrested immediately after the incident, he said.
The body was handed over to family members after postmortem and the matter is being investigated, the officer said.
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