Source : INDIA TODAY NEWS
A new motive has emerged in the case of a BCom student accused of shooting his father dead in Lucknow. Investigators say a long-buried family robbery secret, and not academic pressure alone, appeared central to the brutal killing.
Police now believe that 21-year-old Akshat Singh shot dead his father, Manvendra Pratap Singh, after the 50-year-old businessman uncovered his son’s alleged role in a jewellery theft at their home months earlier and began closely monitoring him.
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Manvendra, owner of Vardhman Pathology and several liquor outlets, was reported missing on February 20. His mutilated body was later found stuffed inside a drum at the family’s Lucknow residence. Akshat was arrested soon after.
According to investigators, jewellery had disappeared from the house about four months before the murder.
Manvendra initially filed a police complaint suspecting a domestic worker, but later discovered she was not responsible.
Police say he then realised his son had taken the valuables and quietly withdrew the complaint to shield him from legal consequences. From that point, however, the father kept close watch over Akshat’s activities — a shift that reportedly deepened tensions between them.
On the early morning of February 22, Manvendra again pressed Akshat to focus on his studies and future plans, police said. Hours later, the young man allegedly shot him, dismembered the body and concealed it inside a plastic drum inside the house.
Family members told investigators that Akshat had twice failed to clear the NEET medical entrance exam despite coaching, and had been under sustained pressure from his father. He had completed Class 12 at La Martiniere College, they said.
While initial accounts pointed to academic stress as the trigger, detectives now say the earlier theft and the father’s surveillance of his son’s movements appear central to the motive.
“The robbery incident and subsequent monitoring significantly strained their relationship,” a police officer said. “This angle is now a key part of the investigation.”
Forensic and ballistic examinations are under way, and police are reconstructing the sequence of events inside the house before and after the killing.
What began as a missing-person complaint has thus unravelled into a layered crime story — one involving alleged theft, parental control, failed expectations and a meticulously concealed murder inside the family home.
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SOURCE :- TIMES OF INDIA
