India, Feb. 24 -- Head in a blue drum, hands and legs thrown away, bloodstains in the car and house and other chilling details of a 49-year old man's murder by his son in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow have surfaced, triggering haunting memories of a similar killing in Meerut last year.

A 21-year-old BCom student allegedly shot his father, a liquor businessman and pathology lab owner, dead on the morning of February 20, chopped the body into pieces, and put the remains in a blue drum at the family house in Lucknow's upscale Ashiana area, police said on Monday.

The student - Akshat Singh - 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, accordi...