Ahmedabad: At a time when every single case of suicide by a teenager /youth is being seen with suspicion in the wake of deadly Blue Whale challenge internet game, police in the city though has denied that the case of self-hanging by a 12 year old boy in plush Vastrapur area yesterday has nothing to do with it yet it was still puzzled about the somewhat mysterious incident and was investigating it deeply.

In the meanwhile a third year nursing student in Nadiyad, the headquarter of kheda, had also committed suicide by jumping off a nine storied building of the central Gujarat town. The reason behind her suicide was also not yet known. Police was investigating it as well.

PI Vastrapur M M Jadeja today said that though a sketch made fish like tattoo was on the hand of Arihan K Shah (12), who was found hanging in his home in Indraprashth bungalows in Vastrapur last evening, yet it has nothing to do with the deadly blue whale game.

‘Firstly he had no access to mobile phone or computer and secondly those who play the deadly game make the picture of the fish on their hand with a blade or any other sharp object. Secondly in most of the cases of suicide prompted by it, the victims jump off some high place to commit suicide and do not hang self,’ the PI claimed.

He stressed that it was not at all a case of blue whale prompted suicide yet he accepted that it was a puzzling case in which such a small boy hanged self.
Arihan, a class 6 student had allegedly hanged him on the terrace of his bungalow by using a plastic string. He had tied it with an iron angle. His parents and the only other brother were out of home and grand parents were on the ground floor when he reportedly hanged self.

Notably, a class 10 student in Mundra town of Kutch district was saved from falling in the death trap of the game a few days ago.

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