Battle royale mobile games like PUBG Mobile (known locally as BGMI) have been making headlines for quite some time now, obviously for negative reasons. The game isn’t as vicious as a few toxic players have made it. In India, the crimes related to PUBG are manifold. One such incident is emerging from Uttar Pradesh’s Deoria, where a 20-year-old boy killed a six-year-old boy to frame his grandfather, who used to stop him from playing BGMI.

The six-year-old, identified as Sanskar Yadav, used to take tuition from Arun’s grandfather, Narsingh Sharma. So, on Wednesday evening, after tuition, the boy did not come home, and when his parents went to Sharma’s residence to figure it out, they were informed that Sanskar had not shown up for tuition. Soon after, the family lodged an FIR and started looking for the boy.

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The police later found his books and notebooks scattered in a field near Sharma’s house. One of the copies also had a letter demanding a ransom of Rs 5 lakhs for his release. Later, the police took the writing samples of family members and neighbours and Arun Sharma’s handwriting matched that of the ransom note writer, who was later taken into police custody and interrogated.

On interrogation, Arun revealed that his father used to scold him every time he used to play PUBG/BGMI and often refused to give him money. Miffed by him, he kidnapped Sanskar with the intention of implicating his grandfather.

According to the reports, Arun kidnapped him, sealed his lips with adhesive to prevent him from screaming and asking for help, and then strangled him to death. Later, he dumped the boy’s body in the toilet outside their home.

The police seized the accused’s mobile phone and sent it for forensic examination. The police have also detained Arun under the charges of murder, kidnapping for ransom, and causing of the disappearance of evidence.

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