A 16-year-old boy who murdered his mother and younger sister in a Greater Noida felt his parents did not love him after being scolded at home, police said on Saturday.
The boy used a cricket bat, scissors and a pizza cutter to commit the murders and then left the city, police said.
He was traced to Varanasi based on a call he made to his father from a passerby’s phone and brought back late on Friday.
“The boy has confessed to the crime. He said his mother had scolded him on December 4 afternoon for studying on the sofa,” Love Kumar, Gautam Budh Nagar senior superintendent of police, said.
When he refused to move, she scolded him and beat him up. In September, his father had confiscated his cell phone for not doing well in studies. Enraged, he murdered his mother and sister late that night when they were sleeping, Kumar said.
Later, he booked a cab and went to Old Delhi railway station from where he took a train towards Jammu. He got down at Ludhiana and travelled to Chandigarh, Shimla, Ranchi and finally reached Varanasi from where he called his father and broke down during the conversation, police said.
