Scolded for playing games on mobile, boy ends life in Udupi
Udupi, May 25: A 14-year-old allegedly ended his life by hanging himself inside his house in Udupi district, police sources said.
The boy, an eighth standard student at a junior college in Uppunda, is suspected to have taken the extreme step at his house at Bijoor village in Hoskote on Saturday after he was reprimanded by family members for spending more time playing mobile games and not concentrating on studies.
The boy had been spending his time alone inside his room and was not mingling with others over the last few weeks.
Worried over this, the family members had advised him against playing games on the mobile phone.
Angry over this, the boy went inside his room, closed the door and hanged himself from the roof.
Though he was taken to the government hospital at Kundapur, his life could not be saved.
A case of unnatural death has been registered at the Byndoor police station, the sources said.
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Security forces destroy 23 illegal bunkers, seize 18 IEDs in Manipur
Imphal (PTI): Security forces have destroyed 23 bunkers illegally constructed in Manipur's Ukhrul and seized 18 IEDs in Tengnoupal district in separate operations, a police statement said on Saturday.
The bunkers were destroyed on Thursday in the hill villages of Mongkot Chepu, Shongphel, Mullam, Sirarakhong and Ringue in Litan police station area, it said.
A 12-bore pump action gun, 17 cartridges of different calibres and 111 empty cases of fired bullets were also seized.
At least seven people have been shot dead in different firing incidents and more than 30 houses have been torched since violence broke out between Tangkhul Naga and Kuki communities in Ukhrul district in February this year.
Meanwhile, in a separate operation on Wednesday, security forces seized a cache of arms and explosives in T Bongmol village in Moreh police station area in Tengnoupal district.
Two single-barrel rifles, four 9mm pistols with magazines and 18 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were seized. The explosives were destroyed on the spot, it added.
