HYDERABAD: Hurt over his parents reprimanding him for spending a lot of time playing PUBG
video game
instead of preparing for the ongoing
Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exams, a 16-year-old class 10 student committed
suicide
by hanging himself at his residence in
Malkajgiri
on Monday night.
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The deceased was identified as Kallakuri Sambashiva, 16, from Vishnupuri Extension in Malkajgiri. Sambashiva was a student of Gouthami School, Malkajgiri. His father K Bharath Raj, 45, is a priest. On Tuesday, Bharath Raj lodged a complaint with Malkajgiri police stating that his son Sambashiva killed himself by hanging in his bedroom on Monday night after he was chided by his mother, Umadevi, for playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds video game, developed by
PUBG
Corporation, on a cell phone.
“Sambashiva used to play video game on phone and my wife Umadevi warned him not to play the game on Monday night. My son got angry and committed suicide by hanging in his bedroom,” Bharath Raj mentioned in the police complaint.
“Parents had warned him several times. On Monday, his mother reprimanded him for playing video game instead of preparing for Tuesday’s English exam. Sambashiva went inside the bedroom and bolted the door. After he did not come out for sometime, his parents broke the latch and found him hanging from the ceiling fan with a towel,” the SI said.