<p class="title">Septuagenarian Amravati Devi, a resident of Varanasi town, about 300 km from Lucknow, would never have imagined that her sons will try to make money out of her death.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Amravati, whose husband was a retired government servant and had died a few years back, got a monthly pension of a little over Rs 18,000, an amount enough to make her sons keep her body after her death for four months to enable them to continue receiving the money.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The matter came to light after the neighbours complained of the sharp stench emanating from Amravati's house, they then informed the police.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The police found Amravati's body on a cot inside the house, sources said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police said that Amravati had died in January this year but her three sons, who lived with her, refused to cremate her body saying that she had slipped into a coma and would regain consciousness soon.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The family had stopped meeting people and interacting with the neighbours since then, the police said quoting the neighbours.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Amravati's daughter told the police that her eldest brother Ravi Prakash used to collect the pension of her mother.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Prakash used to put the thumb impression of her dead mother on the form, the police said. The family had moved to the town a few years back.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The body had been sent for postmortem examination, police said and added that a case would be lodged against the three sons.</p>
<p class="title">Septuagenarian Amravati Devi, a resident of Varanasi town, about 300 km from Lucknow, would never have imagined that her sons will try to make money out of her death.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Amravati, whose husband was a retired government servant and had died a few years back, got a monthly pension of a little over Rs 18,000, an amount enough to make her sons keep her body after her death for four months to enable them to continue receiving the money.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The matter came to light after the neighbours complained of the sharp stench emanating from Amravati's house, they then informed the police.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The police found Amravati's body on a cot inside the house, sources said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police said that Amravati had died in January this year but her three sons, who lived with her, refused to cremate her body saying that she had slipped into a coma and would regain consciousness soon.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The family had stopped meeting people and interacting with the neighbours since then, the police said quoting the neighbours.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Amravati's daughter told the police that her eldest brother Ravi Prakash used to collect the pension of her mother.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Prakash used to put the thumb impression of her dead mother on the form, the police said. The family had moved to the town a few years back.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The body had been sent for postmortem examination, police said and added that a case would be lodged against the three sons.</p>