The accused was miffed with his parents over their decision to bequeath their property to the wife of their deceased elder son and had been planning to kill them for some time.
A man was arrested for allegedly strangulating to death his elderly parents and also deceiving the police by claiming it to be a robbery-cum-murder at their home in Loni area in Ghaziabad, officials said on Sunday.
An elderly man and his wife were strangled to death when they resisted a robbery attempt in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad, the police said on Saturday. The incident took place on Friday evening.