Lucknow blue drum case: Accused says ‘gali se hogaya’ after allegedly killing his father

The 21-year-old son, Akshat, allegedly killed his father following a dispute on February 20 in Lucknow.

A brutal killing incident made the headlines in the past few days, where a 21-year-old LucknowBCom student allegedly killed his father following a dispute on February 20. The chilling confession of the accused has now surfaced online, where he says, “galti se hogaya” [I did it by mistake].

BCom student kills his father allegedly after a dispute in Lucknow.

The accused, Akshat, 21, allegedly chopped his father’s body and stuffed some remains in a blue drum while he discarded the others in an attempt to destroy evidence. The student was arrested on Monday and confessed to the murder, the police added, as HT reported earlier. The murder was committed on February 20 around 4.30 am, as per police officials. This heinous murder comes almost a year after the infamous blue drum case of March 2025, in which 29-year-old Merchant Navy officerSaurabh Rajput was killed by his wife, MuskanRastogi, and her lover, Sahil Shukla, in Meerut.

“Galti se hogaya,” said the 21-year-old accused.

When reporters asked him about the reasons behind his committing the crime, Akshat said, “Galti se hogaya [I did it by mistake].” Akshat, according to a report, shot his father, Manvendra Singh (50), around 4.30 am on February 20 following a dispute. The accused later chopped his body parts in an attempt to destroy evidence, disposing of several hands and legs at different locations in Lucknow, while concealing the torso inside a drum kept at the ground floor of their house. Police earlier said the crime stemmed from an argument after the father pressured his son to take the All India Pre-medical Test (NEET, National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) instead of B.com. Friends and close neighbours of the Singh family outrightly rejected the claims.

Leading portals spoke to many of them at their house in Ashiana Sector L and outside the KGMU post-mortem house on Tuesday. They said they were not convinced by the “NEET theory” and opined that such a brutal act can’t be a fallout of a mere career choice. Vikrant Vir, deputy commissioner of police, Central, was quoted as saying in an earlier report, “Manvendra Singh had been reported missing for three days by his son. Police arrested Akshat Singh, 21, after his conflicting statements unravelled the plot.”