Son, wife stab 75-yr-old multiple times at their BRS Nagar house

Times News Network
Ludhiana: Following heated arguments, a 45-year-old man, along with his mother, brutally killed his father at their house in BRS Nagar on Tuesday night.
After stabbing Sham Singh Anand, 75, multiple times, Jatinder Singh and Charanjit Kaur, 67, sat beside his body the entire night and apprised their relatives of the incident on Wednesday morning.
Sham Singh had retired from IFFCO as its north region general manager.
Assistant commissioner of police (West) Sameer Verma said, “Jatinder is the only child of the couple. As he is unemployed, Sham Singh was running the house with his pension. Jatinder was dependent on his father for even basic needs, which strained their relations. And Charanjit would support their son.”
“A couple of days ago, the trio had a fight after which Jatinder and Charanjit left the house and went to their relatives’ place in Ropar. Sham Singh pacified the two and brought them back to the city on Tuesday,” the ACP added.
However, on returning home, the three brawled again, as the elderly man had to take the help of his relatives to persuade them to return.
“An tempers frayed, an infuriated Sham Singh picked up a knife and attacked his wife, who received a deep cut on her wrist. On seeing this, Jatinder lost his nerve and hit Sham Singh on head with a blunt weapon. He then snatched the knife from his hand and stabbed him multiple times, in eyes, head and face. Charanjit, too, stabbed him,” the ACP said.
Sarabha Nagar police station SHO sub-inspector Madhu Bala said, “The family had returned from Ropar around 6pm on Tuesday. Thereafter, Sham Singh went to his brother’s house to bring back his two-wheeler, which was parked there. He returned home around 9.30pm. Jatinder said the murder took place after half-an-hour. He and his mother sat by the body the whole night and called up their relatives in Ropar in the morning.”
The kin then informed Sham Singh’s brother, who lives in Ludhiana’s Subhash Nagar, of the killing. After reaching the spot, his brother, Kishan Singh, sounded the police.
Kishan Singh said, “Jatinder is an addict. He would often ask for money to buy drugs, which led to fights between the father and the son.”
The ACP said, “It is yet to be verified if Jatinder is an addict. The body has been sent to civil hospital for post-mortem.”
“We have recovered the weapons used in the crime from the spot,” the SHO added.
The Sarabha Nagar police have arrested Jatinder and Charanjit under Section 302 (murder) of the IPC.