Aligarh: A 24-year-old student of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) was arrested Thursday night from the Quarsi area of Zakir Nagar after he allegedly stabbed his parents to death following a quarrel, police said Friday.
According to the police, Mohammad Ghulamuddin, a second-year B.Com student at AMU, allegedly murdered his parents, Mohammad Ishaq (60) and Shehzadi Begum (58), who lived in a rented house in Quarsi with their other three children — aged between 18 and 30. Ishaq was the Imam of the neighbourhood mosque.
Arvind Rathi, inspector in-charge at Quarsi police station, told ThePrint Friday that about a month ago Ghulamuddin had left home after a quarrel and gone to Bulandshahr. However, Ishaq brought him back home last week. Since then, Ghulamuddin was constantly quarrelling with his parents, he said.
Police said that according to Ishaq’s eldest child, Mehzabeen (30), Ghulamuddin was sleeping with his parents Thursday, when he suddenly got up in the middle of the night and started stabbing them with a pair of scissors.
Hearing their parents’ screams, the other children woke up and began screaming, following which neighbours reached their house. Despite neighbours’ repeated pleas, Ghulamuddin did not stop and continued stabbing both of them until they had died.
The police arrived on the scene after receiving a call from one of the neighbours.
An FIR was registered against Ghulamuddin under Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 302 (murder), police said. He was presented before a magistrate Friday and sent to 14 days custody.
The scissors used in the murder have been recovered from the house and the bodies sent for autopsy, senior superintendent of police, Aligarh, Kalanidhi Naithani told ThePrint Friday.
The post-mortem report, he added, shows that Ishaq had 21 wounds on his body and his wife had 18.
(Edited by Anumeha Saxena)
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