MEERUT: An elderly man was gunned down allegedly by his son on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday in Meerut’s Lisari gate area. The prime suspect is still in the run, police said.According to the family, Sakib used to indulge in frequent altercations with his father, Rehman and brother over property and financial matters. “An altercation on Thursday night went horribly wrong after Sakib, in a fit of rage, killed his own father,” said Ranvijay Singh, SP (city).Sakib, youngest among the six brothers, was demanding money and share from the family business to start his own venture. Argument over this used to swell to altercation. Things took a turn for the worse on the intervening night of November 1-2.After the murder, Sakib, in connivance with others in the family, tried to make the murder appear as a natural death. Sakib tried to conceal the gunshot wound and cleaned the spot and started preparing for the burial of the deceased.The local police was tipped-off in the morning about the murder. Sakib escaped from the spot even as the police blew the lid off the murder cover-up and sent the body for post-mortem.“Based on the complaint of deceased’s eldest son Rashid, a case was lodged at Lisari gate police station. Teams have been pressed in action to trace Sakib,” said Raghuraj Singh, Lisari Gate SHO.

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