A 16-year-old boy allegedly killed his father and later died by suicide by jumping in front of a metro train at Sector 52 station here, police said on Friday.
According to preliminary investigation, the teenager had been living with his father in the rented accommodation in Garhi Chaukhandi village.
The incident occurred on Wednesday, when the teenager allegedly killed his father, Raju Sharma, a tutor, and subsequently went to the metro station, they said. “Early Wednesday morning, while his father was asleep, he killed Raju. Metro staff and security personnel rushed him to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared him dead.
Police said the boy’s mother had left Raju after the COVID-19 pandemic and was living separately. Afterward, he went to the Sector-52 Metro station, where he attempted to take his own life by jumping in front of a train,” police said. The Sector 49 police station received information through Dial-112 that a boy had jumped before a train at the Metro station.
The teenager had been living with his father in the rented accommodation in Garhi Chaukhandi village for about three months and was depressed over his father’s alleged harsh behaviour and his mother’s absence, according to preliminary investigation.
