67-yr-old man held for murdering son

Coimbatore: A 67-year-old Periyanaickenpalayam resident killed his 37-year-old son on Sunday.
Police identified the deceased as P Dhanabal of Sri Bharathi Nagar at Gudalur Kavundampalayam in Periyanaickenpalayam.
Dhanabal, a wall painter, was staying with his parents after separating from his wife 12 years ago, police sources said. “He was addicted to alcohol and often fought with his father U Palamalai, a wall painter. On Saturday night, Dhanabal came home drunk and started a fight with his father. When he demanded money to buy liquor, Palamalai refused and asked him to go to bed. When an angry Dhanabal tried to attack him, Palamalai retaliated and hit him on his head with a wooden log. Dhanabal, who went out of the house, was found dead on the road on Sunday morning,” a police officer said.
The Periyanaickenpalayam police sent the body to the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) for postmortem and arrested Palamalai. He was booked under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code and remanded in judicial custody. TNN