An 18-year-old from Haryana, identified as Akash, pushed the BMW he received as a birthday gift from his father into a river after the latter denied to buy him a Jaguar that was originally demanded by the teen.

The BMW -series was found floating in the river in Yamunanagar by locals, who tried to keep the car from drowning fearing that there might have been someone inside the vehicle. "When the youth was plunging the high-end BMW car into the river, he also made a video and put it on social media," a police officer reportedly said.

A case has not been registered as the father of the youth tried to evade the matter by informing the police that his son had not deliberately driven the car into the river but had swerved to avoid an antelope on the road.