Boy Ran Away From Home After Being Scolded For Playing PUBG Was Found In Kolkata

Harin - Oct 01, 2019

A 16-year-old boy who previously ran away from his house in Mumbai after being scolded by his parents for PUBG addiction was found in Kolkata.

On September 25, a 16-year-old boy who previously ran away from his house in Mumbai after being scolded by his parents for PUBG addiction. The boy reportedly stopped going to college to play the popular online game.

According to the Entally Police, after having discovered the boy on the streets of Central Kolkata, they then asked him some questions. The boy said he didn’t have any money to go back home. The boy has been sent to a children’s home. He will stay there until the Navi Mum Police and his family arrive to take him back.

His family said that the boy may have come to Kolkata in order to watch a PUBG competition’s final round.

PUBG-addiction — The boy reportedly stopped going to college to play the popular online game.

The boy whose name is Aayush Ashok Chudaji comes from Nerul. On September 16, after his parents had gone to work, he left home. He took with him Rs 6,000 in cash, which was given to him by his parents to buy clothes and pay for society dues. The police stated that the boy hadn’t been going to his college which is in Seawoods to go to game parlors around Navi Mumbai to play PUBG.

Nandu Angane, the boy’s uncle, said that the boy once said to his friends in the neighborhoods that he planned to go to Pune, saying that he was offered a job at a cyber café where he can play the game.

His parents had filed a complaint to the Nerul Police. The uncle continued saying that on September 22, the boy’s family had already gone to a PUBG tournament held in Pune to look for him but couldn’t find him. The national finals will be held in October in Kolkata. The prize money is Rs 15 lakh. The family doesn't know if the boy came to Kolkata because of the competition or not.

The uncle also said that the cyber cell of the Navi Mumbai Police tried to trace the boy but couldn’t since he had changed his account in PUBG. When the cyber cell checked his account, the discovered that Aayush was at the game’s last stages. But because his ID had been changed, there was no way the police could track him down using the IP address.