72-year-old man repeatedly hit with brick by drunk son, dies

The Sudhar police have arrested a youth of Rajgarh village, who had allegedly killed his septuagenarian father by hitting him with a brick late on Friday.

Cops led by SHO Gurdeep Singh have initiated a probe into the sequence of events leading to the brutal murder of Boota Singh (72) after registering an FIR under Section 103 (1) of the BNS against accused Avtar Singh on the statement of the deceased’s wife Malkit Kaur.

Perusal of the FIR revealed that the accused had thrashed his father brutally when he had tried to stop him from putting the house on fire with a gas cylinder in an inebriated state around 10.30 pm.

Avtar, who is working as a private security guard in Ludhiana, had returned home around 9 pm on Friday and started consuming liquor, which his parents, including the deceased and the complainant, objected to.

“As Avtar Singh had been harassing usl, including his wife, in an inebriated condition, I called my husband to stop him from setting the house on fire after he had consumed more liquor,” Malkit told the police, alleging that the accused had hit Boota multiple times on head with a brick after he fell on the floor.

Avtar fled the house after abusing everyone as Malkit tried to rescue her husband from his clutches. Boota died on the spot, following which the family called the police.

The accused was nabbed by the police when he was trying to leave the area later in the day. Though the investigating team is yet to ascertain the past criminal record of the accused, if any, preliminary investigation revealed that he had been harassing the family on lame excuses for a long time.

The police are yet to verify circumstances under which the suspect had been booked earlier for causing the death of Boota’s brother.