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NEET Exam Wasn’t The Reason Lucknow Man Killed, Chopped Up His Father

In an act of revenge, Akshat went to his father’s room around 4 am, took the rifle, and shot him in his sleep.

The grisly crime was witnessed by the accused’s sister.

Lucknow:

Hours before Akshat Pratap Singh murdered his father and chopped the body into pieces, the two engaged in a heated argument over the accused stealing money to pay for the renewal of a liquor licence, their neighbour revealed.

On the night of February 19, Manvendra Singh returned home to find that Rs 50 lakh cash was missing. When he questioned his accused son, he found out that Akshat had stolen the money for a liquor contract – the online application for which was expiring on February 23, the neighbour said. This soon turned into a heated argument when Manvendra, enraged, slapped Akshat and pointeda rifle at him.

In an act of revenge, Akshat went to his father’s room around 4 am, took the rifle, and shot him in his sleep. Minutes later, he moved the body from the third floor of the family home to a vacant room on the ground floor, where he used a machine to dismember the body. Sources said that he severed the legs below the knees, chopped off both hands, and decapitated the victim. He then disposed of the chopped parts near Sadrauna on the outskirts of Lucknow – around 21 kilometres away from his home, over two days.

The accused had kept his father’s torso in a blue drum, wrapped in a sleeping bag, inside his car. As he was leaving to dispose it off on February 22, the liquor shop accountant arrived at his house, leading him to cancel his plan.