Blue Whale Challenge: Locals rescue class x girl from jumping into the lake

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September 5, 2017

Jaipur, Sept 5: In yet another case of the infamous Blue Whale Challenge, that has claimed hundreds of lives across the world, Jodhpur police averted a suicide on Monday night by rescuing a 17-year-old girl who was trying to kill herself by jumping into the Kaylana Lake situated in Jodhpur district of Rajasthan.

From Rajasthan, this is the first case reported of Blue Whale Challenge, which has been in news for making teenagers indulge in self-harming acts and subsequently taking their own lives. As per the sources, a 17-year-old girl studying in class 10th was rescued by Jodhpur police after she tried to jump into a lake as a part of the ugly challenge, a lethal online game which has claimed several lives across the world.

The girl, daughter of a BSF officer, had left home on Monday night on the pretext of going to market. When she did not return, her parents panicked started looking for her. "Her parents came to the police station and lodged a complaint of her missing. Meanwhile, we got to know that she was spotted near Kaylana lake in the outskirts of Jodhpur. The divers present near the lake saw her crying and rescued her from jumping in the lake." SHO, Mukta Pareek at Mandore Police Station said. 

According to the police, the girl has downloaded Blue Whale Challenge in her mobile since last few days. The girl failed to complete the game and was fearing that her mother will die as the game administrators had threatened her. The local worker Om Prakash who was at the lake stopped her from jumping and also informed the police. "The local divers told us that girl reached the spot into tears and was about to jump but when regular divers asked her whereabouts she told them about her failure in the game. They with no time rescued her and informed the police station," Mukta added.

This is the latest case reported in the country in connection with online Blue Whale Challenge. The challenge that originated in Russia is spread over 50 days and requires the participants to complete 50 tasks. Over one hundred deaths linked to it have been claimed in last two months. Initially, the participants are asked to complete tasks like watching a horror movie alone, carving the shape of a whale onto their body and ultimately the last challenge is to commit suicide.

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July 9,2020

Ujjain, Jul 9: Kanpur encounter main accused Vikas Dubey has been arrested at a police station here on Thursday, as per sources in the Uttar Pradesh government.

"Vikas Dubey, the main accused in Kanpur encounter case, has been arrested at a police station in Ujjain," said UP government sources.

Dubey is the main accused in the encounter that took place in Kanpur last week, in which a group of assailants allegedly opened fire on a police team, which had gone to arrest him.

Eight police personnel were killed in the encounter.

Earlier today, Bahua Dubey and Prabhat Mishra, close aides of the main accused, were killed in separate encounters in Etawah and Kanpur respectively.

Whereas, Shyamu Bajpai, also an aide to Dubey, has been arrested by Chaubeypur police following an encounter. He carried a reward of Rs 25,000. Uttar Pradesh's Special Task Force (STF) had gunned down Vikas Dubey's close aide Amar Dubey in Hamirpur district, earlier on Wednesday.

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June 29,2020

Khammam, Jun 29: In an outrageous incident, some youths beat up a monkey and strung it up on a tree to death while also releasing dogs to attack it in Ammapalem village in Telangana's Khammam district.

A video of the heinous incident of animal cruelty has surfaced on social media, in which the monkey is seen hanging by a rope from a tree, desperately flailing its limbs while a couple of dogs attempt to pounce on and torment the hapless simian. After a while, several men are seen in the video approaching the animal with long sticks.

Forest officials have charged one villager Venkateshwar Rao under Wildlife Protection Act along with the other accused and arrested them. They were released on bail on Saturday and are set to be summoned for questioning by forest officials.

Rao had spotted the monkey, which had entered his residence apparently in search of food and beat it with a stick and hung it from a tree with the help of his friend.

In the video of the incident, Rao could also be seen instructing his pet dogs to bite the monkey, which was fighting for its life.

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June 6,2020

Kota (Rajasthan), Jun 6: A 14-year-old boy allegedly hanged himself to death on early Saturday morning shortly after he stopped playing PUBG throughout the night and went to sleep, said police. 

Railway Colony police station’s in-charge Hansraj Meena said the boy, a class 9 student and son of an Army man, was found hanging from the grill of the ventilator in his bedroom on early Saturday morning. 

Meena said according to the boy’s family members, the boy had downloaded the gaming programme on his mother’s mobile phone only three days back but had been playing the game virtually continuously for the last three days. 

He kept on playing the game till 3 am in a room in which his brother was studying, said Meena, adding the boy went to adjoining to sleep after that. His body was found hanging from the ventilator’s grill in the morning, he said, adding the boy was rushed to MBS Hospital, where he was declared “brought dead”. 

No suicide note was recovered in the case, the SHO said. The boy lived in Gandhi Colony in the city along with his mother and brother, while his father, a Tamil Nadu native and Army man, is currently posted in Arunachal Pradesh. The boy’s body has been kept in hospital’s morgue for the postmortem, the SHO said.

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