Damodar killed his son over the latter abusing and threatening him and his wife after getting drunk.

NAGPUR: Damodar Balapure, 71, sat beside the body of his 38-year-old son Sanjay after allegedly murdering his son on Wednesday night at their home at Alankar Nagar. At 5 am on Thursday, he walked to Hudkeshwar police station to surrender.

Damodar killed his son over the latter abusing and threatening him and his wife after getting drunk. Sanjay was earlier booked for murdering his father-in-law a few years ago. Damodar, remanded in police custody till July 22, is learnt to have used a sharp carpentry tool to hit Sanjay’s skull at about 1.30 am.

Damodar was forced to kill Sanjay fearing elimination for him and wife as they were not able to cough up 25,000 that he was demanding to buy a bike. Sanjay would frequently turn violent with his parents demanding money for buying liquor and create ruckus at home in an inebriated condition.

Family sources stated there was a feud happening in Balapure family since Wednesday afternoon. The quarrel had gone on till late evening until Sanjay went to sleep. Damodar, seeing Sanjay asleep, stabbed him on the head with a carpentry tool.

Sanjay was released from jail in April this year after several years following his alleged involvement in murder of his father-in-law at Morshi in Amravati in 2012-13. He was also injured after being attacked by his brother-in-law then.

It is learnt he had gone there to bring his wife, Rani, from her parents’ place and a fight had erupted.

Family sources said Damodar and Sanjay both were carpenters. Sanjay would buy liquor with whatever he earned and then make fresh demands for money from father. Damodar would strive hard to make the ends meet for family and also work at a puncture repair shop when there was no carpentry work.

In the last four days, Sanjay was repeatedly threatening to kill his parents. He was also learnt to be throwing away food leaving the parents and his own 10-year-old son Sarvadnya starving. Sanjay’s wife Rani stayed at her parents’ place with her seven-year-old daughter Anushree.

Damodar, after killing Sanjay, had called up his son-in-law Devendra Sathunkar to inform him of the incident. The call was picked up by Damodar’s daughter Sushma who started sobbing on hearing of the murder. “My father-in-law told me he was sitting beside Sanjay’s body. He wanted me to inform the rest of the relatives about Sanjay’s death,” said Devendra. “My father-in-law wanted to know whether he should surrender before police which we supported,” he said.

It is learnt Balapure family held Sanjay responsible for his elder brother Vijay’s death about a decade ago. “The brothers had a fight at home after which Vijay had walked out and suffered a cardiac arrest,” he said.

