Chamarajanagar: Son kills father for not giving him money to drink alcohol

Chamarajanagar, 28 Oct 2018 [Fik/News Sources]: A liquor addict crushed his father to death for not giving him money to drink at Thammadahalli village in the district on Friday night.

The deceased has been identified as tender coconut vendor Mahadeva Nayak (65) of Thammadahalli . Chamarajnagar rural police registered a case.

His son Swamy has been demanding money for consuming liquor every day. On Friday night also, he asked money from his father. When his father denied amount, he became angry and attacked his father. As he attacked his father with a stone, Mahadeva Nayak sustained head injury and died on the spot, it is said.

Swamy’s wife Mamatha gave a statement to the police that it was a common scene for her at home. On Friday night, he killed his father in an inebriated condition, sources said.

However, the accused also gave a statement that he did not kill his father. There was a quarrel at home. Both of them have sustained injuries and he has done anything wrong, he added.

Meanwhile, Mahadeva Nayak’s daughter Pushpa said that her brother used to quarrel with her father every day. On Friday night also, he developed a quarrel with her father and in a wrath, her brother killed her father. He should be punished, she said.

When the accused tried to attack family members while shifting the body to the district hospital, public thrashed him black and blue. Chamarajnagar rural police arrested Swamy and sent him to police custody.