Telangana man’s parents burn him alive allegedly for harassing them for money

Allegedly fed up of being harassed over money, a couple burnt their son alive in Telangana's Warangal Rural district on Tuesday. The police said that the couple, K Prabhakar and Vimala, were tired of their son getting drunk and continuously harassing them for money. The police said that the couple tied up their son, 42-year-old K Mahesh Chandra, poured petrol and set him on fire. The shocking incident occurred on Tuesday night at Musthayalapalli village in Warangal Rural district, about 200 km from Hyderabad. According to the police, Mahesh was an alcoholic and unable to bear his harassment, his wife had gone to her parents' house two months ago. Since then, he had been harassing his parents for money. Villagers claimed that he was even beating them up.  Media reports suggest that Mahesh was also asking demanding that a tract of land, owned by his parents, be handed over to him. On Tuesday night, Mahesh came drunk and allegedly started beating his parents. Unable to bear this treatment any longer, they burnt him alive, the police said. Policemen from Damera rushed to the village and shifted the body for autopsy to the nearest government hospital. They registered a case and arrested Mahesh's parents.   Mahesh, who was working as a clerk in Warangal Agriculture Market, is survived by two children and his wife. A similar incident had surfaced in Kerala in 2017, when a middle-aged couple in Thiruvananthapuram killed their own son after growing tired of the violence he committed against them, under the influence of drugs and alcohol. The Parassala police in Kerala had said that the parents threw acid on the 25-year-old Santosh's face and attacked him with an iron rod. The police added that Santosh used to frequently assault his parents if they refused to give him money for alcohol and drugs. Read: Ignoring stack of evidence, how Andhra cops killed probe in a 15-yr-old’s rape case IANS inputs