West Bengal student commits suicide for being unable to play 'PUBG' after ban

Guwahati: Inability to play the now-banned PUBG led a student from West Bengal''s Nadia district to take his own life, police said on Sunday.

Pritam Halder, a 21-year-old ITI student, was found hanging in his house in Purba Lalpur in Chakdaha police station area, police informed.

The deceased's mother said that Pritam went to his room after having breakfast on Friday morning. When she went to call him for lunch, his room was locked from inside.

After repeated bangings when he did not open the door, the youth's mother called the neighbours who broke into the room and found him hanging from the ceiling fan.

The mother has claimed that her son was apparently frustrated for not being able to play the game. She has said that he would play the game every night, and the inability to play the Chinese-made game after the Government's ban drove him to take a drastic step.

Meanwhile, police said they have registered a case of unnatural death.

Police said that after talking to the family members, they believe that the student killed himself for not being able to play the mobile game, which was blocked by the government on Wednesday.

Pritam's father Biswajit Halder is a retired army man and the mother is a homemaker.

It needs mention here that the Information and Technology Ministry on Wednesday banned the hugely popular gaming app PUBG Mobile and 117 other Chinese-linked mobile applications.

The mobile apps banned by the government had "issues around security, surveillance and data privacy of Indian users," IT and Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said.

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