Monday, November 6, 2017


Blue Whale Challenge: West Bengal teenager comes to Chennai to commit suicide, rescued

Siddharth Prabhakar| TNN | Nov 5, 2017, 12:16 IST


The boy, hailing from an affluent family, told the RPF that he was going to commit suicide as part of the Blue Whale Challenge.

CHENNAI: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) at Chennai Central station on Saturday evening rescued a 17-year-old boy who had boarded a train from West Bengal as instructed by the admins of the Blue Whale Challenge game. The boy, hailing from an affluent family, told the RPF that he was going to commit suicide as part of the Blue Whale Challenge.

The RPF in Chennai got a tip off from Delhi about the teenager who had travelled from Siliguri to Kolkata, where he boarded the Howrah-Chennai Coromandel Express on Friday.

Photos and other details of the teenager were sent on WhatsApp to top RPF officials in Chennai. But it was not known which train he had boarded.

A special team under the leadership of RPF inspector Mohan was formed to check all trains coming from Northeast.

On Saturday evening, Mohan and his men found the teenager loitering at the station after the Coromandel Express arrived here. At first he tried to evade. However, later he confessed that he was instructed to go to Chennai by the Blue Whale game admins. He is a first year BA student.

"His notebooks have descriptions on different ways of committing suicide, like hanging, jumping off a train and stabbing oneself. He told us that he would be given further instructions after coming to Chennai by the admins. The teenager seemed to be in a confused state of mind," Mohan told TOI.

The RPF said his parents had been informed and they would flying down to Chennai on Sunday. His father is a school principal.

After counselling by Child Welfare Committee (CWC) officials, he will be allowed to go with his parents.

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