A 28-year-old mentally ill youth was strangled to death by his father at Hanumanganj area of the state capital on Friday; the deceased was demanding Rs 30000 from his father.
The mother of the deceased reached the police station and revealed the whole thing to the police.
After this, the police reached the house and arrested the accused father, the police have registered a murder case against the accused father. The incident occured on Friday evening.
According to TI Awadhesh Singh Bhadauria, Hemant's father Vrindavan Namdev lived in Bal Vihar. He was mentally ill. His father Vrindavan Namdev worked as a tailor.
On Friday evening, Hemant's mother Durga Bai reached the police station and told the police that her son was killed by her husband. As soon as the news of the incident was received, the police reached the house and took the accused father into custody. Also, the police recovered the body of the deceased and sent it for postmortem.
The deceased's father told the police that his son was mentally ill and used to beat up his parents every day.
On Friday evening, the son first demanded beer, on which the father brought beer for him. After this, Hemant asked his father to give him Rs 30,000 when he refused, he started beating him. Frustrated by this, he strangled his son with a nylon rope and killed him.
Police have registered a case against the husband on the woman's complaint. After the post-mortem today, the body will be handed over to the family. At present, the police are investigating the matter.
According to the family, Hemant alias Honey was mentally ill since childhood. Ever since he became an adult, he fell into bad company. He became addicted to drugs. He used to demand money from the family repeatedly.
Honey's father is a tailor and his younger brother works in Yogesh's shop. The financial condition of the family is also weak. Due to which they could not fulfill Honey's demands. Due to which he used to beat his parents.
The mother informed the police about the murder of the son after reaching the police station. She told that her husband has killed her son. He was beating us, and had broken all the household items. He used to trouble us every day. At around 8 o'clock in the evening, he had a fight with his father in an inebriated state, he was upset and in the fight he killed him.