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CHENNAI: A frustrated 37-year-old man slit his father’s throat and castrated him in Choolaimedu on Friday for failing to arrange his marriage and for making derogatory remarks and calling him impotent.

According to police, the accused, M Saravanan (37), murdered his father Mahalingam in a fit of rage after an argument. On Friday night, Saravanan confronted Mahalingam for having not made any effort to get him married. As the argument escalated, the father allegedly insulted his son’s virility and implied that it was useless to get him married. Following the argument, both of them went to sleep. Later in the night, Saravanan woke up and murdered his father because he was not able to bear Mahalingam’s insults. Police also said that after he had slit his father’s throat, he castrated Mahalingam.

The police registered a case based on a complaint from Saravanan’s elder brother Palaniappan. Saravanan has been arrested and remanded in judicial custody.

Saravanan and Palaniappan work as carpenters. Palaniappan lived on the ground floor with his family while Saravanan and Mahalingam lived on the first floor. There had been regular fights between the father and son on the issue of his marriage and Saravanan’s alcoholism.

Siblings Drown

Two brothers, who went to bathe in a nearby temple pond, drowned, in A Vasudevanur near Thiyagathurugam in Villupuram on Friday. Their bodies were later fished out by locals.

According to sources, Jeganathan (43) had three children Abinaya (13), Abishek (11) and Aakash (8). On Friday, Abishek and Aakash returned from school and went to a nearby Ayyanar temple pond to bathe. The brothers, who did not know swimming, fell into the deep end of the pond and drowned.