“What is your name? Where do you reside? What was your father’s name? And did the police tell you why you have been arrested?”
After he calmly answered the first three questions, the court asked if he knew why he had been arrested, the teenager replied: “For murder. For this, they needed four days’ custody of the accused. The accused was later taken to the court basement for fingerprinting and other formalities. When journalists asked him about the incident and whether he wanted to say anything, he remained silent. But tensions between the two had allegedly been brewing for a long time.
These were the questions judicial magistrate Kuldeep Singh put to 18-year-old Armaan, a Sector 22 resident accused of allegedly shooting dead his 45-year-old father, UT police head constable Nitin Kumar, during his production before a local court on Saturday. After hearing the submissions, the court granted three days’ police remand and directed that Armaan be produced again on September 29. An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) posted at the Sector 17 police station said Armaan had been changing his statements repeatedly, necessitating detailed interrogation during the remand period. He had also been seeking ₹ 10 lakh from his father to set up a second-hand automobile business, according to the police. Police said his insistence on marrying his alleged live-in partner, and his parents’ advice to wait till he was 21, further soured their relations.
they told the court that Armaan had allegedly purchased a country-made pistol from a person in Haridwar While police did not disclose details of the probe in open court. Police said the alleged supplier was yet to be arrested and they also needed to trace the links and associates involved in procuring the weapon. After his father told him to wait, the duo allegedly started having frequent arguments.
The teenager had a previous brush with the law after he allegedly ran over two madrassa teachers in a hit-and-run incident earlier in February.
