Belgaum (Karnataka): A 21-year-old Raghuveer Kumbar killed his father (retired policeman) and chopped off his head and legs after his father disturbed him while playing online game PUBG (PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds) in Belagavi district of Karnataka.
According to the reports, 65-year-old Shankrappa Kumbar (father), often used to tell his son to not play PUBG all the time and this led to quarrels between the two.
On Sunday night, there was another heated argument between father and son. After the argument, the accused locked his mother in a room so that he could stab his father with no disturbance.
Raghuveer killed his father and cut off his head and legs around midnight so that he could play the online game PUBG on his mobile phone in ‘peace’.
During the investigation, police learnt that Raghuveer had rented a room, where he would spend time with his friends on days they did not attend classes. He had a WhatsApp group, comprising nine to 10 friends, including girls where they would talk about bunking classes and make other plans.
Earlier, in a similar incident, last year, a 19-yar-old stabbed his father, mother and sister for scolding him while playing PUBG in New Delhi.
The menace of online gaming addiction has reared its head across the country and many such cases have been reported where youth have turned in killers for being stopped from playing PUBG.
PUBG is a game in which players parachute onto a battlefield where they then find vehicles and weapons and win the game by becoming the last person standing.
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