The police in Ajmer is probing the role of an online game in the alleged suicide of a 17-year-old girl in Rajasthan’s Beawar town, an official said on Wednesday.
The girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself in her home on July 30. According to her suicide note, the girl took the extreme step due to ‘low’ marks she had secured in the Class X examination.
“The girl’s friends told her parents that some online game had pushed their daughter to suicide. According to the friends, the gilr was in the last stage of the game which was about suicide. Her parents brought this to our notice a couple of days back,” Beawar police station SHO Ravindra Pratap said.
He said the girl used her mother’s phone often, which was examined by a technical expert on Tuesday and Wednesday. The phone will be forwarded to forensic science laboratory to ascertain whether any such game was in it, he added.
Mr. Pratap said the parents have not named any game in particular, but it has been described as “an online, internet game”. “So far, we have found no evidence in the mobile phone that she used to play with. However, the detailed examination of the mobile phone is going on,” Mr. Pratap said.
