Yet another Suicide due to the Blue Whale Suicide game!! The game has found its first victim in India.

Shocking and gory details have emerged out of the investigations in the suicide of a 14-year-old boy in Mumbai. The suicide could possibly be India's first case of death linked to the social media challenge called Blue Whale.

What is the Blue Whale Challenge?

The Blue Whale game or Blue Whale Challenge is believed to be a suicide game wherein a group of administrators or a certain curator gives a participant a task to complete daily — for a period of 50 days — the final of which is the participant committing suicide. Participants are expected to share photos of the challenges/tasks completed by them.
These daily tasks start off easy — such as listening to certain genres of music, waking up at odd hours, watching a horror movie, among others, and then slowly escalate to carving out shapes on one’s skin, self-mutilation and eventually suicide.
There is still uncertainty over how a participant plays the game. While some say the user has to install some app on their smart phone, others say it’s via social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook where the administrators get in touch with the participant after those interested throw out postings on social media asking for a “curator”. A number of different hashtags— #bluewhalechallenge, #curatorfindme, #i_am_whale — act as signals for the anonymous curators.
It must be noted, however, that there still is no confirmation of the existence of the game, and suicides linked to it are from personal accounts of families/friends of those deceased who claim they have seen their loved ones performing tasks. While reports of suicides linked to the game have surfaced across the globe, authorities claim that the origin appears to be in Russia, which has reportedly seen about 130 related deaths and at least two arrests.

And few days back the game found its first victim in India.
Manpreet Sahans, the boy who committed suicide, lived in Sher E Punjab in Andheri East. The boy jumped from his seven-floor building's terrace on Saturday. Sahans, a Class nine student of an international school in Andheri, stayed with his parents and two elder sisters.
He dreamed of becoming a pilot and had expressed a desire to go to Russia for training. Russia is the country from where the Blue Whale Challenge is believed to have originated.
Mumbai Police has given advisory to all parents in the city to be more vigilant with their children. Mumbai Police said, "Parents are in a state of shock. Two people watched boy jumping from terrace. We advise people to look after their children and keep tab on their behaviour."

CHILLING DETAILS OF THE SUICIDE

According to investigations, Sahans had been using the internet to search for ways to jump from the terrace. This search was done by Sahans two days before he committed suicide. An insider informed that Sahans, while leaving school on Friday, had told his friends that he wouldn't be coming to school on Monday.
Sahans' behaviour had changed completely from a week before. His parents had doubts about his intentions but they did not expect him to commit suicide. They are now in a state of shock.
On the day of the suicide, Sahans went up to the terrace and sat on the parapet for over 20 minutes. While sitting on the parapet he was continuously speaking to his friends on social media where he informed that he is going to commit suicide, but no one took him seriously and thought that it might be a joke.
A police officer, who is part of the investigation said, "A person from another building saw Manpreet sitting on the parapet and kept asking him to get down. Manpreet even took a selfie with the person from where he was sitting and posted it on the group. He told his friends that one person was stopping him from committing suicide and that he would jump once he goes down."
The man on the other building left from his terrace to save Sahans. Sahans jumped down from the terrace when he saw the person coming his way.
Sahans had already jumped by the time the man reached. The man took Sahans to a local hospital but was declared dead there.

The photo was taken by the boy sitting on the terrace parapet. In the photo, the boy's legs can be seen, and the photo was captioned, "Soon the only thing you would be left with is a picture of me."

Manpreet Sahans, the boy who committed suicide, jumped from his seven-floor building's terrace Photo: Saurabh Vaktania

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