Nicholas Njagi, who appeared before a Chuka Court facing manslaughter charges pleaded not guilty of the offence.
He is alleged to have committed the heinous act two weeks ago in Maara Sub-county, after picking an argument over the land before the lifeless body of his son was found three days later.
Preliminary reports indicated that the deceased, Hillary Mwiti, a 42 year oldÂ
matatu operator in tearoom Nairobi was brutally beaten by hired goons from his own clan on orders of his father.
Mwiti sustained serious injuries and was found dead in his house three days later after the ordeal.
Before his demise, Mwiti had requested his father for his share of land after his father remarried a second wife following the death of his mother.