Karnataka: A 20-year-old man from Karnataka's Hassan district was arrested for allegedly killing a delivery boy and burning his body after he failed to pay for an iPhone he had ordered online. The accused, identified as Hemanth Datta, had ordered the phone from Flipkart and was supposed to pay Rs 46,000 upon delivery. When the delivery boy, Hemanth Naik, came to deliver the phone, Datta asked him to open the box, but Naik refused and asked for payment. The accused then allegedly stabbed Naik to death and kept his body in his house for four days before burning it near a railway bridge. The incident has sent shockwaves through the region, and local authorities have condemned the heinous act. The police have launched an investigation into the matter, and the accused has been taken into custody. The police found in the CCTV footage that the accused purchased petrol from a petrol bunk.
