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Two weeks af­ter 63-year-old Ramesh Lal­be­har­ry died fol­low­ing what was ini­tial­ly re­port­ed as a fall from a co­conut tree, homi­cide de­tec­tives have charged his son in con­nec­tion with his death.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors met yes­ter­day with Deputy Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Sab­ri­na Jaglal, who, af­ter re­view­ing the ev­i­dence, ad­vised that a 41-year-old man be charged with manslaugh­ter. Act­ing Cor­po­ral Hug­gins was ex­pect­ed to for­mal­ly lay the charge lat­er in the day, with the ac­cused sched­uled to ap­pear vir­tu­al­ly be­fore the San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trates’ Court to­day.

Po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions have since cast doubt on the ear­ly ac­count of the in­ci­dent. Ac­cord­ing to the ini­tial re­port, around 3 pm on De­cem­ber 31, Lal­be­har­ry was at his home along Has­sanali Trace, Bar­rack­pore drink­ing al­co­hol with rel­a­tives when a dis­pute re­port­ed­ly erupt­ed with a fam­i­ly mem­ber. He lat­er walked to the back of the house, where rel­a­tives even­tu­al­ly found him ly­ing be­neath a co­conut tree.