MBA student hangs self from tree; Blue Whale Game suspected

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September 1, 2017

Puducherry, Sept 1: In a suspected case of suicide over Blue Whale Game Challenge, a student of  Pondicherry Central University was found hanging from a tree campus at midnight of Thursday.

According to Kalapet police, Sasikumar Bora (23), a first year MBA student hailing from Assam, hanged himself from a tree near his hostel room.

Bora, who was chatting with his friends last night, left for his room and was found hanging Friday morning. His friends informed the police that Bora used to play the Blue Whale game.

Kalapet police who checked his cell phone also confirmed that the youth was playing the game.

His phone has been seized and sent to the cyber cell for further investigation.

The body of Bora was sent to Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute for an autopsy, and cops are waiting for a report.

His parents were informed about the tragedy and they are on their way to Puducherry, police said.

“We have begun investigations to check whether the death was due to his playing the Blue Whale game”, Superintendent of Police (East) S Venkatasamy said.

On Wednesday evening, a 19-year-old boy from Madurai hung himself inside his house, as a task of completing the last challenge of the deadly game. This was the first death reported in Tamil Nadu due to the game which has claimed many young lives in the country and around the world.

According to police sources, Vignesh (19), younger son of Jeyamani and Vanitha, was the resident of Kalaignar Nagar at Vilacheri in Madurai district. He was studying second-year B.Com in a private college in Thiruparankundram.

A day after the suicide, Madurai Superintendent of Police on Thursday made a startling revelation that they have identified over 75 people clandestinely playing the proscribed online killer game in the district.

Addressing a press meeting here, N Manivannan said that data from Vignesh’s phone revealed a WhatsApp group of 75 members, who were allegedly playing the game and initiating gullible people to follow suit.

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May 9,2020

New Delhi, May 9: A 23-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide at the AIIMS here after her mother died of cancer at the hospital, police said on Saturday.

She was reported missing after her mother passed away on Wednesday and her body was found near the new private ward block of the hospital on Saturday, they said, adding that she fell to her death from a building.

"Her mother was a cancer patient. She was being treated at the hospital and had died during treatment on Wednesday," Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Atul Kumar Thakur said.

Her father was busy in the formalities when she left the area. She was reported missing since Wednesday. The family hails from Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh, a senior police officer said.

Hospital staff noticed the body and informed the police. The block was closed due to which nobody found out about it earlier, police said.

Police said she had called her friends and told them that she was going to kill herself. The body has been recovered and an inquest proceeding is underway.

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May 14,2020

Six migrant workers have been killed and five others seriously injured when a speeding bus ran over them on the Delhi-Saharanpur Highway near in Muzaffarnagar, officials said on Thursday.

The accused driver, who was suspected to be under the influence of alcohol, has been arrested, said SSP Abhishek Yadav.

The workers were going on foot to their homes in Bihar from Haryana when they were hit on the Delhi-Saharanpur Highway between Ghalili Check Post and Rohana Toll Plaza, about 20 km from here late last night, the official said.

The injured -- Sushil, Nathu Saini, Pawan Saini, Pramod and Ramji Rai --were rushed to hospital.

Two of the deceased were identified as Bijender, 25, and Harsh, 20. The rest were yet to be identified.

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March 7,2020

Palghar, Mar 7: Police have arrested a man for allegedly cheating several shopkeepers in Maharashtra's Thane, Pune and Nashik by making phone calls in a woman's voice, police said on Friday.

The accused, Shashikant Ambekar (42), a resident of Palghar, was arrested in the last week of February, they said.

"He used to note down the phone numbers mentioned on different shops and call the owners in a woman's voice to order some things from them. He would tell them that he had a Rs 2000 currency note and needed change," an official said.

"He would ask the shopkeepers to send smaller denomination notes for exchange. He would wait at the entrance of buildings and when the delivery man arrived, he used to tell that he was there on behalf of the ''caller woman''.

"He would then take the currency notes from the delivery man saying he would get the Rs 2,000 note from the woman. However, he would disappear from the scene," the official said.

Police have seized Rs 1,85,000 from the accused and found that so far he has committed 22 similar crimes in different parts of the state.

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