India, Feb. 24 -- A 21-year-old man in Lucknow allegedly killed his father, dismembered his body and stuffed it in a blue drum on Friday, February 20, reportedly following an argument over the father asking his son to pursue medical entrance exam NEET, said police.

The accused, identified as Akshat is a B.com student and disagreed with his father's will for him to pursue NEET and the gruesome crime stemmed from an argument over the same, said Vikrant Vir, deputy commissioner of police, Central in Lucknow, Hindustan Times reported earlier.

According to police, the gruesome murder in Lucknow was inspired by the 'blue drum' murder case in Meerut which happened in March 2025. In the Meerut murder case, Muskan Rastogi and her lover Sahil Shu...