Overview
- The shooting occurred Wednesday night at the family home in Budana village, Modinagar, when the accused, identified as 32‑year‑old Nikhil, allegedly returned drunk and got into a dispute with his father.
- Family members and police say the argument moved from drinking to demands for formal transfer of property and that Nikhil fired multiple rounds, killing his father Hari Om (also reported as Hariom Chaudhary).
- Ghaziabad police registered an FIR under the murder provision of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and sent the body for post‑mortem while forensic teams collected evidence at the scene.
- Multiple local police teams are searching for the accused, who fled with the pistol according to complaints, and investigators are reviewing CCTV, technical data and an earlier 2018 case in which he allegedly fired on his younger brother.
- Relatives say the dispute centers on an informal, undocumented division of roughly 75 bighas of land and three market shops near the Delhi‑Meerut Expressway, a high‑value holding that helps explain the intensity of the family conflict and the strain on those left behind.