Mobile game addict youth beheads father for snatching smartphone

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September 9, 2019

Belagavi, Sept 9: A 25-year-old youth has brutally beheaded his father and also severed limb for snatching the smartphone. The incident took place in Karnataka’s Belagavi district in the wee hour on Monday.

The victim has been identified as Shankar Devappa Kumbar 60, a retired head constable a resident of Kakati in Belagavi.

The previous night Shankar had snatched the smartphone from his son Raghuveer Shankarappa Kumbar (25) who had habituated to mobile games.

When the father found his son playing games even in the early hours the former had snatched the gadget and admonished his son against playing video games.

The youth who was irked over this, in the wee hour, beheaded his father attacking him with the traditional cutting equipment used in the kitchen while the father was asleep.

The accused is now in police custody. Senior police officials have visited the spot. Kakati police have registered a case.

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