In two shocking cases, a youth brutally hacked his aged parents in Aligarh while in Bulandshahr, a minor girl was arrested for killing her mother and father.

The incident in Aligarh took place in Zakir Nagar (Lane No. 7) in the Quarsi area late Wednesday night. Local police reached the spot after being informed of the double-murder and sent the bodies for autopsy and arrested the accused son. Reports said that 60-year-old Ishaq and his 57-year-old wife Shehzadi Begum, were living with their son Ghulamuddin. Ishaq was imam in a local mosque. They hailed from Suar area of Rampur district. The accused is a student of BCom in Aligarh Muslim University.

According to reports, Ghulamuddin was having a rift with his parents for the last few days. Due to this rift, he killed his parents late Wednesday night.

Senior Superintendent of Police Kalanidhi Naithani said that the police control room received information that a youth had killed his parents by stabbing them with scissors in Zakir Nagar Gali No. 7. After this he locked himself in the room. The SSP said the police nabbed the youth after finding the bodies of his parents lying in pools of blood. The youth confessed to have killed them but did not disclose the immediate motive.

Further investigations are going on.

In Bulandshahr, police apprehended a 15-year-old girl for the murder of her parents, who were axed to death a fortnight ago.

The minor girl confessed to the murder. The teenager told the police that she hated the atmosphere at home and "was fed up with the violent behaviour of her parents towards her”. She said that her mother would frequently beat her up and also had an illicit relationship with a man.

The couple, Hafiz Khan and Rihana, was found dead on the morning of March 15.

Sources, however, said that the accused girl was unhappy with her parents as they objected to her talking to boys on the phone and also meeting them.

Being annoyed with her parents, the teenager conspired to kill them.

Bulandshahr SSP Shlok Kumar, said, "The girl confessed to murdering her parents with an axe after lacing their food with a heavy dose of sleeping pills." The police also arrested the youth who arranged the pills and the shop owner who sold the pills, under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.

"It was a difficult case to crack as there were no clues. While checking the mobile phone of a family member, we could find that the minor girl had a communication with a man in December and asked him to arrange sleeping pills but he refused," the police officer said.

The police said that two days prior to the double-murder, the girl had arranged a pack of 20 sleeping pills.

"The girl mixed five tablets in the tea she prepared for her mother and 10 tablets in the milk for her 50-year-old father. The couple used to sleep outside their house while the accused and her younger sister had their beds inside the house," said the police officer.

The police said that on the fateful night, the girl scaled the roof of a neighbour with the help of a ladder and came to the front of her house where she killed her parents by repeatedly hitting the axe on their heads. They died on the spot and she went back to sleep.

The girl has been sent to the juvenile home in Bulandshahr, while the two men were sent to jail after being produced in a local court.

The SSP said that the police had recovered the axe used in the double-murder. It was hidden in the heap of fodder in the house.