![]() “We have sought help from cyber experts on how to tackle the menace. The official said till date, most of the complaints were reported from Jalpaiguri, Kurseong, Paschim Medinipur districts, and it was only last week that one was reported from Kolkata. I knew about the ‘game’ and because I have a kid I was scared,” Rajashree Upadhyay said. On Thursday night I found the invitation on my WhatsApp. ![]() “I chose not to reply to the invitation as advised by one of my friends. On August 21, Jalpaiguri resident Kabita Rai received an invitation to “play” the “death game”, following which she had lodged a police complaint, the official said, adding a college student from the district was detained in connection with the complaint.Īnother woman, an IT professional and a mother of an eight-year-old boy, in the state capital received a similar invitation, following which she approached the Kolkata Police cyber cell. Preliminary investigation has revealed that people who have shown the slightest of sign of depression or a desire to commit suicide were targeted, he said. “It is a growing menace and we are getting reports of an increasing number of people, mostly youths, getting invitation on their WhatsApp from unidentified numbers to play the ‘game’,” the official said. ![]() Police suspect that both of them were into the online killer game which led them to take the ultimate step.
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