Jalti se ho gaya Accused Akshat dismembered his father’s body and stuffed some of the remains in a blue drum while disposing of others in a bid to destroy evidence, 21-year-old Lucknow B Com, accused of killing his father, said after a dispute on February 20.
The police added that the student was arrested on Monday and confessed to the murder, HT reported earlier. Police said the murder was committed on February 20 at around 4.30 am.
The murder comes almost a year after the infamous Blue Drum case of March 2025 in which 29-year-old merchant marine officer Saurabh Rajput was murdered by his wife Muskaan Rastogi and her lover Sahil Shukla in Meerut.
“Jalti se ho gaya [I did it by mistake]Akshat said on Wednesday when reporters asked him about the reasons that prompted him to commit the crime.
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While police had earlier said that the crime arose out of an altercation after the father pressured his son to pursue NEET (National Eligibility Entrance Test) in India, instead of B.com, close friends and neighbors of the Singh family have categorically rejected the allegations.
HT spoke to several of them at their home in Ashiana Sector L and outside the autopsy house at KGMU on Tuesday. They said they were not convinced by the ‘NEET theory’ and opined that such an atrocity could not be the result of a mere career choice. Read the full report here
“His son reported Manvendra Singh missing for three days. Police arrested Akshat Singh, 21, after his conflicting statements exposed the conspiracy,” Vikrant Veer, deputy commissioner of central police, was quoted as saying in an earlier HT report.
The act was committed in front of Akshat’s younger sister, a class XI student. He allegedly threatened to kill her if she spoke. “The sister witnessed the entire incident but was intimidated and forced into silence,” the DCP said.
Akshay dragged the body from the third floor to an empty room on the ground floor to erase the evidence, Ashiyana Shaw Kshatrapal said. He dismembered the body there using some tools.
“To erase the evidence, Akshat dragged the body from the third floor to an empty room on the ground floor. There, he dismembered it using tools from home. He loaded some parts in his car and drove to the remote Sadrawana area, where he disposed of them,” Kshatrapal said.
The torso and head were stuffed into a blue plastic cylinder that Akshat intended to dispose of later but was caught before he could do so. Akshat dumped the other remains of the body in a remote area near Sadrona in an attempt to hide his crime and it has not yet been traced.
The DCP said he was in the process of disposing of the stump when we intervened.
