AURANGABAD: Almost a week after a city professor was found brutally murdered in his bungalow, the police on Monday detained his 17-year-old son, claiming that he has confessed to having killed his father following a bad-tempered verbal exchange.
The boy also led the police to the recovery of the “murder weapons” — a 5kg dumbbell and a knife allegedly used in the crime and a towel used for cleaning the bloodstains — from a well near their house on Monday afternoon after a hectic search conducted with the help of the fire brigade.
“We produced the teenager before a child welfare committee which ordered his remand in a correctional facility,” deputy commissioner of police (zone II) Deepak Girhe said.
City police commissioner Nikhil Gupta said, “Despite all the limitations, technical hurdles and absence of eyewitnesses, our police teams have finally detected the case.”
The professor was found murdered on October 11 morning. His family members, including parents, wife, daughter and son, had claimed they had no idea how and when the murder had happened. The son had said he had seen someone running away from the house during the early hours.
The police said the boy cracked under intense questioning and admitted to the crime.
A senior officer associated with the investigation said the boy has claimed that he was upset with his father’s insulting behaviour towards him over the years.
Minor son has confessed to killing professor dad: Police
The investigators were intrigued by the fact that no one was spotted going in or out of the house during the intervening night, that there was no sign of forced entry, there were no fingerprints of an outsider and nothing was stolen from the bungalow.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the boy, driven by a desire to eliminate his father, had been watching murder mystery movies and web series on OTT platforms for well over a year, police said.
The boy has also confessed that he watched videos on how to slit a throat and murder a person, his legal rights as a juvenile as well as protection under law, police added.
