A man killed his father and mother on Friday morning on the Christmas day under the Bisra police station of Sundargarh district allegedly over a land dispute.
According to sources, Manbodh Singh (60) had been residing with his wife Lila Singh(55) and two sons at Bisapur village under Bisra block. Manbodh was suffering from paralysis. Manbodh’s elder son Jai Singh(38), is married and is working outside the State and few months ago, he had returned to his home and had been residing with his wife and parents and younger brother Sunil. Parents of Jai Singh was recently planning to hold marriage of their younger son Sunil and therefore mother Lila had given a proposal for selling their land for Sunil's marriage but Jai Singh reportedly had objected to her proposal.
On Friday morning at around 8 am, when parents of Jai Singh again spoke about selling land for conducting marriage of Sunil, Jai Singh in a fit of rage picked up a slab(which is used for making paste) and vegetable cutter and attacked his father Manbodh and mother Lila. Both died there. When wife of Jai Singh opposed him, he also attacked her, following which she sustained injuries on her hand. Thereafter, he fled the spot.
After getting information, Bisra police reached the spot, seized the bodies and sent them for post mortem.
"We have detained Jai and we are now interrogating him. We will arrest him.” said Bisra police station IIC Binita Majhi.