17-year-old student becomes first victim of Blue Whale game in Haryana
Panchkula, September 25, 2017: A Class 10 student of a private school here allegedly committed suicide while playing online killer game Blue Whale on Saturday.
The deceased identified as Karan Thakur was student of DAV School, sector-8, Chandigarh. He hanged himself to death at his residence in sector-4, Panchkula.
File photo of Karan Thakur
According to Karan’s family member Suraj, the body was cremated after post-mortem. When examined, a diagram showing methods of committing suicide was found from his school notebook. The Blue Whale game was found installed on his mobile about which the bereaved family informed the police.
He had written in the notebook that he did not deserve to live. He used to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning for past some days. He had also visited a a doctor along with his mother but the doctor was not available that day.
This is being considered as the first such case in Haryana.