SCOLDED FOR PLAYING PUBG, 20-YEAR-OLD ENDS LIFE

JALANDHAR: Scolded by his parents for spending hours on the mobile phone playing PUBG, an online battle game, a 20-year-old college student shot himself dead at his house in Jalandhar on Thursday.

Police said the youngster opened fire with his father’s service revolver. His parents took him to a nearby hospital where he was declared brought dead.

His father said, “We didn’t scold him much but being parents we used to ask him to focus on studies and spend less time on the phone playing PUBG.”

Division number-5 SHO Ravinder Singh said the father told them that the boy had been playing the game for hours on Wednesday night. “Distressed by the scolding, he shot himself dead with father’s .32-bore revolver,” the officer said, A case was filed under Section 174 of the IPC.