A father’s simple admonition against his son’s drunkenness ended in a bloodbath in Surguja, Chhattisgarh. Prabhath Kerketta, 25, hacked 50-year-old Paras Kerketta with an axe during a heated midnight exchange, then discarded the corpse in a water tank before treating himself to biryani and slumber.
Details emerged as police pieced together the Monday night horror. Paras resided alone, while Prabhath occupied nearby rentals. Intoxicated and belligerent, the son barged in, igniting a familiar dispute. Unable to stomach the rebuke, Prabhath wielded the axe, inflicting lethal wounds to his father’s skull.
Undeterred, he concealed the evidence in the tank, stepped out for food, savored spicy biryani, and retired. Dawn brought concern from neighbors unaccustomed to Paras’s silence. Officers arrived, fished out the body, and nabbed the perpetrator who feigned accidental homicide.
Chronic alcoholism lay at the feud’s core, witnesses noted, with clashes commonplace. The arrest marks a grim closure to the immediate chaos, but the probe continues to uncover any prior motives. This tale of filial betrayal serves as a stark warning on unchecked vices eroding family ties, leaving a community in collective mourning.