This became the genesis of the teenager’s fight with his family that eventually led to a massive tragedy, police in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar said on Friday. As phone cameras kept rolling, the teenager and his father fell to their deaths, only to be followed by his mother, who jumped off the cliff. Kunal, 18, managed to buy an iPhone but could not afford to pay the instalments.
Kunal had bought an iPhone and had been asking his family for money to pay the EMIs, according to police officials. This led to a heated argument with his father over the latest payment.
Police have not yet shared further details on the circumstances of the family dispute, or whether the teenager had been battling depression as had been reported initially. The incident was witnessed by a number of local residents and tourists who had gathered at the site during the hours-long standoff, with parts of the effort to talk Kunal down captured on video. This led to a heated argument with his father over the latest payment, after which an angry Kunal left home and climbed a hill in the Tisgaon area, under Waluj MIDC police station limits, around 10 am.
Kunal had bought an iPhone and had been asking his family for money to pay the EMIs, according to police officials.
