An Indian man was stabbed to death by his own rooster after putting a 3-inch knife in his leg from an illegal cockfight, police said Sunday.
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 village of Lothunur, in the state of Telangana.
“Satish was hit by the rooster’s knife in the groin and began to bleed heavily,” police inspector B. Jeevan said Sunday, revealing that the victim died on the way to a local hospital.
Police are now looking for more than a dozen people involved in organizing the deadly cockfight, warning that they could face up to two years in prison if found guilty.
The rooster survived, with photographs tied with a rope and chopping grains at the police station that went viral locally on social media.
“We may have to file it in court,” Jeevan said.
In fights (banned in India in 1960), two birds with a knife or blade tied up fight until one dies or flees.
Despite the ban across the country, they remain common in the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in southern India, often under the watchful eye of powerful local politicians with big money bets.
With publishing cables