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Key Highlights On Friday night, the accused went to sleep with his father in the same room and fled from the home after murdering him A few years ago, the wife of the accused left him, apparently because of his impotency The accused was receiving treatment by the doctors in Aligarh and Meerut

Greater Noida: A 25-year-old man has been arrested by the police for allegedly murdering his father by slitting his throat with a sickle in Jarcha. The accused held his father responsible for his impotency and murdered him because he felt that the latter did not do enough to get his medical condition treated.

Wife left accused over impotency

Rambhool Singh, the deceased, was a farmer and lived with his wife and two sons named Lalit and Arun in Kalouda village. Arun and his wife were blessed with a son, while Lalit and his wife parted ways, apparently because of his impotency, a few years ago. The accused was receiving treatment by the doctors in Aligarh and Meerut.

According to the Times of India, at around 7 am on Saturday, Arun went down from the first floor to check on his father and found him lying dead in the room. Arun noticed that Lalit, who slept in the same room, was missing.

Accused nabbed

A team of Police officials arrived at the spot and sent the body for conducting an autopsy. DCP Rajesh Kumar Singh said that the deceased’s family had informed them that on Friday night Rambhool and Lalit slept in the same room. The following day, in the morning, they found a blood-soaked Rambhool lying on his cot and the sickle nearby. Singh said that the police immediately started searching Lalit and soon they caught him from the neighbouring Ghodi-Bacheda village.

Accused is mentally unstable

During questioning, Lalit confessed that he murdered his father as he was not allowing him to go out of the house owing to his medical condition. The DCP said that it appears that the accused is mentally unstable. Lalit told the police that the overprotected father confined him to his room as his family felt that he might leave the family or indulge in fights. The accused has been booked for murder under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).