Bengaluru man beats to death minor son over mobile phone addiction, attempts to secretly cremate body

According to the FIR, Ravikumar became enraged during an altercation connected Friday and reportedly told Tejas, “It doesn’t substance if a lad similar you lives oregon dies,” earlier assaulting him. After Tejas’s death, Ravikumar allegedly attempted to cremate the assemblage without informing the constabulary oregon anyone else. The Kumaraswamy Layout constabulary arrested Ravikumar based connected the ailment of his woman and Tejas’s mother, Shashikala B.

As per the complaint, connected Friday morning, astir 8 am, an statement escalated, and Ravikumar, allegedly nether the power of alcohol, deed Tejas with a cricket bat aggregate times successful his backmost and legs. He past allegedly smashed Tejas’s caput against a wall, causing terrible injuries that led to the boy’s collapse.

Shashikala said she initially dismissed the incidental arsenic regular home hostility and near the house. Tejas’s older sibling was not astatine location during the assault, she said.

In her statement, Shashikala recounted an statement the erstwhile nighttime erstwhile Tejas demanded repairs for his mobile phone. “I told him I would look into it if helium attended school. My hubby besides advised him not to ruin his life. Tejas became angry, deed me, and utilized abusive language,” she said. Shashikala said near for a adjacent temple to debar further conflict.

She said erstwhile she returned connected Friday morning, she witnessed Ravikumar and Tejas quarrelling again. After leaving for the temple a 2nd time, she came backmost successful the day to find Tejas struggling to breathe. Along with Tejas’s person Kishore, she rushed him to the infirmary astir 3 pm, but doctors declared him dormant connected arrival.

Shashikala besides alleged that Ravikumar attempted to screen up the transgression by disposing of the cricket bat utilized successful the assault. The Kumaraswamy Layout constabulary said they were alerted erstwhile preparations for Tejas’s past rites were underway.

Ravikumar was produced successful tribunal connected Saturday and remanded successful judicial custody, a elder serviceman said.