A 15-year old boy with whale carved on his left forearm was on Monday night found hanging from the ceiling in his bedroom at his parents’ tin-roof house at Paschim Kazipara under Mirpur police station in the capital.
Police suspect that Md Sayem alias Saim, son of Babu Dewan of Baraikhali, Shrinagar, Munshiganj, might have committed suicide out of ‘depression’ generated in him by the sinister online suicide game, Blue Whale Challenge.
Sayem committed suicide hours after the High
Court Division directed the government to block Blue Whale Challenge Game and other horrifyingly dangerous online games that goad teens to commit suicide.
The HC gave the directive after hearing a writ petition of three Supreme Court lawyers.
Subrata Bardhan, among the petitioners, suspects that his daughter Opurba Bardhan Swarna, a class VII student of Holy Cross School, was goaded to commit suicide by Blue Whale Challenge Game.
She took her life on October 5.
Sayem, who dropped out of school after class six, used to help his father in running his book shop.
Police sub-inspector Atiqur Rahman of Mirpur police station, who recovered Sayem’s body at around 10 PM Monday, told New Age, a whale was carved on his left forearm using pins or hooks.
He said that Sayem used to play the online Blue Whale Challenge Game and primary investigation showed that he might have committed suicide out of depression generated in him by the game.
The police sub inspector said that being informed about the incident, he rushed to the spot and found Sayem hanging from the ceiling with a scarf ties to his neck.
He said a whale was carved on his left forearm’
The picture of the whale would not be visible as his arm was covered by the full sleeve of his shirt.
Sayem’s body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for post mortem examination, he said.
Dhaka Medical College’s forensic lecturer Pradip Biswas, who conducted the autopsy, later told reporters that he found a mark on Sayem’s neck and collected tissue from there.
He said, he also collected blood and viscera samples of the deceased for examination.
‘This was for the first time I saw a whale clearly drawn on the arm of a deceased,’ said Dr Pradip.
Babu Dewam said his son had dropped out of school and that he noticed changes in Sayem’s behavior quite recently.
‘But we were not aware that he played such a dangerous game, but whale mark on his arm could not be seen by others as he always wore full sleeve shirts,’ he said in tears.
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