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Shockingly the boy even attempted to cover his sinister act by trying to pass it off as an accident that his father met with by falling on the bathroom floor.
However, the postmortem revealed that the man had died from strangulation.
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Mobile addiction has been a serious iisue for quite sometime now, and it is proving to take lives, more often now.
Extreme fallouts of mobile addiction led to murder of a man by his son, while another teenager took her own life in two separate cases reported on Thursday.
While the police detained a 17-year-old boy on Thursday for allegedly killing his 40-year-old labourer father in a fit of rage over being scolded for playing too much on the phone in Kawas village of Hazira, a 16-year-old girl in Surat’s Ved Road killed herself after her parents refused to hand over her mobile phone as they thought she wasted time on it ignoring her studies.
Shockingly the boy even attempted to cover his sinister act by trying to pass it off as an accident that his father met with by falling on the bathroom floor.
However, the postmortem revealed that the man had died from strangulation.
The boy revealed to police that his father often reprimanded him for wasting time playing games on mobile phone.
On Tuesday, the berating took a turn for the worse when the frustrated boy strangled his father in a fit of rage to death.
Family members who found him lying unconscious in the evening took him to a hospital where he was declared dead.
Police sent the body for postmortem.
“The son told a family member that he found his father in the bathroom.
Initially, family members believed the man could have died due to injury that he sustained after falling on the floor,” said a police officer at Ichhapore police station.
During postmortem, doctors, however, found marks on the neck and established that he died of strangulation.
During questioning, the teenager confessed to his crime.