Lucknow man stole jewellery from home, father tracked killer son before murder
India Today
Police now believe that 21-year-old Akshat Singh shot dead his father, Manvendra Pratap Singh, after the 50-year-old businessman uncovered his son's alleged role in a jewellery theft at their home months earlier and began closely monitoring him.
A new motive has emerged in the case of a BCom student accused of shooting his father dead in Lucknow. Investigators say a long-buried family robbery secret, and not academic pressure alone, appeared central to the brutal killing.
Police now believe that 21-year-old Akshat Singh shot dead his father, Manvendra Pratap Singh, after the 50-year-old businessman uncovered his son’s alleged role in a jewellery theft at their home months earlier and began closely monitoring him.
Manvendra, owner of Vardhman Pathology and several liquor outlets, was reported missing on February 20. His mutilated body was later found stuffed inside a drum at the family’s Lucknow residence. Akshat was arrested soon after.
According to investigators, jewellery had disappeared from the house about four months before the murder.
Manvendra initially filed a police complaint suspecting a domestic worker, but later discovered she was not responsible.
Police say he then realised his son had taken the valuables and quietly withdrew the complaint to shield him from legal consequences. From that point, however, the father kept close watch over Akshat’s activities — a shift that reportedly deepened tensions between them.
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