16 year old boy absconded from home by transferring 10 lakh rupees in PUBG game addiction

In the addiction of playing PUBG (BGMI) game, a 16-year-old child transferred Rs 10 lakh from the parent’s account. After that he ran away from home. The Muskan Unit of Mumbai Crime Branch found the child some distance away from home and took him to the police station for counseling. Mumbai Crime Branch (Unit 10) traced a 16-year-old who ran away from home and reunited with the family.

According to the police report, this 16-year-old child transferred Rs 10 lakh from the parent’s account to buy a PUBG/BGMI gaming ID or gamer tag. This money was used to buy PUBG Mobile’s in-game currency i.e. UC. According to the report, the parents of the child said that he had left a note at home before running away. In this note, he had written about leaving the house and never returning.

Let us inform that the parents of the child had scolded him on Wednesday i.e. 25 August for transferring money from the account due to the addiction of the game. Due to the scolding of his parents, he decided to run away from home. Crime Branch police traced his movement with the help of CCTV footage.

This 16-year-old boy from Andheri, Mumbai was found near Mahakali Caves Road. After reading the note written before running away from home, his parents asked friends and classmates about it. After getting no information, the parents contacted the police and the child could be traced.

Events that have come to the fore in the past

Due to the addiction of playing online games like PUBG, many incidents have come to the fore in the past. Due to which many organizations have also raised the demand to ban online games. Due to such online games, the mental state of children has a bad effect. However, before the launch of BGMI , game developers have given many features like parental lock to the game. In such a situation, the phone in which the game is installed should not have any kind of banking apps, so that children cannot use it. Also, parents should also keep in mind that information like online transactions should not be shared with children.