Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Dec 24: In a tragic incident which happened at Mandyampalli village of Chelur revenue division in the rural district here on Sunday December 22, a school boy, agitated at the advice given to him against falling prey to mobile phone addiction, committed suicide. The victim was Yashwant (15), a ninth standard student of Aravind English high school, Chelur.

The boy was at home on Sunday on account of school holiday. He sought the mobile phone his elder sister had with her. His sister refused to give her phone, and advised him against getting addicted to Tik Tok, PUBG etc and instead, study well. Angered by her denial to lend her phone to him, the boy immediately consumed insecticide that was kept inside the house for spraying on plants, and ended his life.

The boy's father was at Chintamani due to ill health and his mother was also with her husband. The locals saw the boy writhing on the ground due to acute abdominal pain and took him to hospital. He was oscillating between life and death when he was referred to the government hospital at Chintamni. By the time he reached the hospital there, he was no more.