Police said Sunday an Indian was stabbed to death by his own cock after attaching a 3-inch knife to his leg.
Thangulla Satish, 45, was stabbed in the groin last week when the bird he had just armed for the fight fluttered in panic, according to police in the town of Lothunur in the state of Telangana.
“Satish was hit by the cock knife in his groin and started bleeding heavily,” police inspector B. Jeevan said Sunday, revealing that the victim died on the way to a local hospital.
Police are looking for more than a dozen other people involved in organizing the deadly cockfight and are warning that they could face up to two years in prison if convicted.
The rooster survived, with photos of it tied with a rope and picked up pellets at the police station, working locally on social media.
“We may have to take it to court,” Jeevan said.
In the fighting – banned in India in 1960 – two birds fight with a knife or a blade attached until one dies or flees.
Despite the nationwide ban, they remain common in the southern Indian states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, often under the watchful eye of powerful local politicians with big money bets.
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