Blue Whale Challenge: CID talks Kolkata student out of playing the deadly game

Thanks to the prompt response from officers of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), a possible case of a college student being the first victim of the Blue Whale game in Kolkata was averted.

CID officials said that registrar of BB Institute of Technology had contacted them a few days ago and informed about the recent unnatural behaviour of a student which had raised the suspicion of officials of the institute. “We were informed that the change in behaviour of the student could possibly be because of the Blue Whale game and also that a blue whale tattoo was found on the student’s arm,” said a CID official.

The student was immediately brought under the scanner of the investigating agency. An inspector of CID befriended him on social media without disclosing his identity and initiated a conversation. “When we started to talk to him after some time he confessed that he had been playing the Blue Whale game and had already passed the eighth stage where he had to cut his arm. He also said that he might have to make more cut marks,” the CID official said and added that in spite of hearing the confessions, the inspector neither attempted to …read more