Bengaluru: A 16-year-old boy allegedly committed suicide after his father refused to buy him a smartphone.
The deceased, C. Gagan, was a class 10 student of Vidyanagar Government High School in Chikkajala. He hung himself to the ceiling of an under construction building in Chikkajala early Wednesday.
Gagan’s father Channakrishna, a farmer, said Gagan was asking for a smartphone for the past few days and used to quarrel with him, saying his classmates mock him for not having one.
Channakrishna had assured him of a phone after the class 10 exam.
On Tuesday night Gagan again quarreled over smartphone and later around 3 am left the house. He went to the under-construction building, owned by his father, and took the extreme step, the police said.
The incident came to light when Gagan’s mother woke up at around 4 am and found the house main door open and her son missing.
She alerted her husband and he went in search of Gagan, only to find him dead. The parents informed the police.
