Related news: PUBG Corporation takes over PUBG Mobile from Tencent Games in India Yet again, in the first week of September, another student Tejas Sidlapur, 17, of Sangur village in Haveri taluk, Karnataka, took the extreme step after his parents repeatedly advised him not to play the game and declined to recharge the internet pack.ĭisappointed over the gaming ban and restrictions imposed at home, the teenager consumed a chemical used for plants and died. Family members told the police that Pritam was addicted to the game and killed himself for not being able to play it. The deceased, Pritam Halder, was an ITI student. Similarly, a 21-year-old student allegedly took his life in Purba Lalpur in West Bengal’s Nadia district on September 6 for not being able to play the online game. Unable to bear it, Srinivasan, a class 12 student, hanged himself in the house.

Perumal even took away Srinivasan’s phone to keep him away from the game. This ban was preceded by India blocking 59 Chinese apps amid escalating border tensions between the two countries.Ī day after the ban on PUBG, Perumal, who runs a silver shop in Vaniyambadi town in Tamil Nadu, reprimanded his son, Srinivasan, for playing the game despite the ban. PUBG Mobile is one of 118 Chinese apps that the Indian government blacklisted over national security concerns recently. Three more died a fortnight before when parents restricted them from playing the game.Ĭases of suicide attempts and self-harm allegedly triggered by gaming addiction were reported from West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Uttarakhand. At least three youngsters in the age group of 17-22 committed suicide after the government imposed a ban on ‘Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds’ (PUBG) on September 2.

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