Pune, August 20: A week after a man's body was found in the canal in Hadapsar, the Sinhagad Road police arrested his son for the murder and dumping the body into the canal with the help of his two friends. According to a Times of India report, the incident came to light, when the accused was taken into custody over suspicion by Shrirampur police in Ahmednagar district.

He admitted to the murder and confessed that he was fed up with his alcoholic father, and in a fit of rage, he suffocated him with a pillow and hit him with a rolling pin. The body was later dumped into the canal after he tied his limbs together.

Reportedly, the accused's mother had ended her life by setting herself on fire, and in this case, the father was the prime suspect. Whatever money the son earned by working at a fabricating workshop, was spent by the father in buying liquor. The case is being further investigated.

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