Parents die in tiff over daughter’s TV watching

MUMBAI: Talk about a senseless tragedy. An argument over a teenaged girl’s television watching ended on Wednesday with the death of both parents in a north Kolkata home.

An Indo-Asian News Service report says the office-goer Manas Haldar returned home in the Cossipore area of Kolkata on 16 January and was enraged to find his his 19-year-old daughter Rituparna glued to the TV.

Haldar lambasted Rituparna for neglecting her studies and being constantly in front of the TV, but his wife Chameli intervened and asked him to go easy on trhe girl.

This enraged the 56-year-old man even further and in a fit of pique, he poured kerosene and set himself on fire. His wife’s attempts to douse the flames resulted in here also getting consumed by the blaze. Both husband and wife succumbed to their injuries on Wednesday.