Elderly Man Murdered By Son's Friend During Heated Argument

A 65-year-old man who was attacked by his son’s friend during an altercation over stolen money succumbed to his injuries at a hospital two days after the incident.

C Rajan, a mason from Ramachandra Naidu Street at Ondipudur in Coimbatore, India, was drinking with his son Premkumar and the latter’s friend, 32-year-old T. Manickavasa on Monday, July 5, when a fight broke out between the accused and the victim.

Rajan found some money missing and accused Manickavasa of stealing it. The duo got into a heated argument during which the suspect attacked the elderly victim with an iron utensil. The suspect fled the scene after the alleged attack.

"Rajan found Rs 5,000 missing from his shirt pocket and started questioning Manickavasagam, suspecting that he might have taken the amount. Manickavasagam denied stealing the amount and fought with Rajan. In a fit of rage, he also hit Rajan on his head with an iron utensil and fled," the Times of India quoted a police official as saying.

The victim and his son then who were reportedly in a highly inebriated state retired for the night. However, the victim’s son woke up the next morning to find his father bleeding from his head. He immediately rushed his elderly father to a nearby hospital

"When Premkumar woke up on Tuesday morning, he found his father in a pool of blood and took him to CMCH," the officer said.

The Singanallur police were alerted about the incident. While the victim continued to fight for his life at the hospital, the police registered a case against the suspect under Section 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Rajan succumbed to his injuries and was declared dead on Wednesday. Following the death, police have altered the charges against the suspect to Section 302 (murder) of the IPC.

The suspect was arrested on Thursday and was remanded to judicial custody.

In a similar but unrelated incident, two minor girls axed their father to death after they reportedly could no longer stand his tantrums after he came home drunk.

The incident happened at a home in the Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh, India.

The girls aged 17 and 12 killed their 45-year-old father when he began attacking their ailing mother after he came home drunk on the night of July 29.