{"id":1005063,"date":"2026-04-27T09:16:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005063"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:13:41","slug":"13-year-old-dies-by-suicide-in-karnataka-after-parents-restrict-mobile-use-police-urge-caution-on-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/27\/13-year-old-dies-by-suicide-in-karnataka-after-parents-restrict-mobile-use-police-urge-caution-on-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"13-year-old dies by suicide in Karnataka after parents restrict mobile use; police urge caution on addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HUBBALI: A 13-year-old boy hanged himself at his residence after his parents restricted him from using his mobile. The incident was reported in Udaynagar under Vidyanagar police station limits on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Police said that the deceased, Samarth, was studying in 8th standard and was addicted to mobile gaming. On Thursday, his mother snatched his mobile after which the boy locked himself in a room. When did not open for a long time, his parents forced open the door and found him hanging. He was rushed to KIMS hospital where doctors declared him dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUBBALI: A 13-year-old boy hanged himself at his residence after his parents restricted him from using his mobile. The incident was reported in Udaynagar under Vidyanagar police station limits on Thursday. Police said that the deceased, Samarth, was studying in 8th standard and was addicted to mobile gaming. On Thursday, his mother snatched his mobile after which the boy locked himself in a room. When did not open for a long time, his parents forced open the door and found him hanging. He was rushed to KIMS hospital where doctors declared him dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005077,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005063\/revisions\/1005077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}