Chided for video game binge, teen kills self in Hyderabad

TNN | Updated: Apr 22, 2020, 06:09 IST

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HYDERABAD: Upset over his mother scolding him over continuously playing video games on mobile phone, a 13-year-old boy jumped to death from the eleventh floor of his apartment.
The deceased, a Class 7 student and resident of Madhapur, jumped from his room’s balcony when his parents were asleep.

“The family came to know what happened only after the watchman alerted them. We found no suicide note in the room,” said Madhapur inspector Venkat Reddy.
According to the police, the boy had committed suicide in the wee hours of Monday. “His mother had recently scolded him for spending too much time on the smartphone playing games and took away the phone from him. We suspect that the boy was upset over this incident and committed suicide,” said police.
The boy sustained a severe head injury and both his legs and ribs were broken. He was rushed to the hospital where he was declared brought dead.
The deceased’s father is a general physician at a hospital in Patancheru. A case of suspicious death was registered at Madhapur police station.