A 16-year-old boy has been apprehended for allegedly stabbing his father to death here, police said today.
The incident occurred at around 11 pm on June 27, police said.
Gulab Singh, an employee of the Uttar Pradesh Irrigation Department, had scolded and slapped his younger son for not studying properly, said SHO Brijesh Sharma.
A heated argument ensued between the two and in a fit of rage, the boy stabbed his father in the chest with a kitchen knife, he added.
A profusely bleeding Gulab was rushed to a nearby hospital where he succumbed to his injury as his heart was punctured in the incident.
His elder son alerted the police and concocted a story that some thieves had barged into their house in Brahm Puri Colony and stabbed his father, said the SHO.
Police found glitches in the story and interrogated the younger son on the basis of suspicion during which, he confessed to killing his father, he added.
The boy was produced before a juvenile court before being sent to the juvenile jail in Noida, he said.
