Pubg Addiction News: 25-year-old man in Karnataka chops father’s head and legs to play Pubg in ‘peace’

Pubg Addiction News: 25-year-old man in Karnataka chops father’s head and legs after an argument to be able to play Pubg in ‘peace’.

In recent events, Pubg has been in the limelight for all the wrong reasons for addiction, there have been several reported instances where people have crossed sanity amidst their addiction for the game.

Similarly, a man from Karnataka killed his own father by chopping his head and legs after a heated argument between the two over Pubg.

The incident took place in Belagavi district of Karnataka. Raghuveer Kumbar, the murderer, regularly fought with his father over his PUBG addiction.

His 65-year-old father and the victim in this case was a retired policeman and usually used to argue with his son over Pubg, where often he used to tell the accused to not play PUBG all the time and this what led to quarrels between the two.

On Sunday night, there was another heated argument between the two, and in a fit of anger, Raghuveer, killed his father and cut off his head and legs around midnight so that he could play the game ‘in peace’.

As of now, the police has arrested the accused and are questioning him about the tragic incident. This is not the first time, when some Pubg fan has killed their own kin.

a 15-year-old allegedly killed his elder brother after he was scolded by him over playing PUBG game on his mobile in Bhiwandi in Maharashtra’s Thane district. The boy got enraged after his brother Mohammad Shaikh, 19, asked him not to play the game on his mobile.

With advent rise of Pubg in the Indian households, issues regarding its addiction are also increasing. Thus, it is an issue which needs to be addressed to curb such impacts in future.

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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