The Delhi High Court on Thursday expressed concern over children allegedly committing suicide while playing ‘Blue Whale challenge’, and wondered why adults are also influenced by this online game
Several incidents of children committing suicide while playing the online game have come to the fore in last few weeks.
The court also wished to know whether the government has issued prohibition order with regard to downlinking of the Blue Whale game.
On Wednesday, the Chief Justice of India Jagdish Singh Khehar also made the remark that Blue Whale challenge can make people do anything.
The Ministry of Electronics and IT has directed the internet majors – Google, Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Microsoft and Yahoo – to immediately remove the links of the deadly Blue Whale Challenge, which has led several children in India and other countries to commit suicide.
Last week, a student in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore attempted to end his life by following instructions given in the online suicide game.
On August 10, a 14-year-old boy from Solapur, who was on his way to Pune to complete a task given to him in the online game ‘Blue Whale Challenge’, was rescued by the police.
Before that, Class 9 student allegedly ended his life by jumping off a building in Mumbai, reportedly becoming victim to the Blue Whale suicide challenge.
Admitting to being the driving factor behind the suicides of youngsters playing the game, Philipp Budeikin, who claims to have created the game, says that the victims were just ‘biological waste’.
“Victims were ‘happy to die’ and I am ‘cleansing society’,” Budeikin told police when he was arrested in May this year.
