Blue Whale: Delhi police keeping an eye on ‘suicide challenge’

Delhi | Friday | 18th August, 2017

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Blue Whale: A reported suicide game (Source: Twitter) Blue Whale: A reported suicide game (Source: Twitter)The Delhi Police has alerted its cyber cell unit to keep track of activities related to the ‘Blue Whale challenge’ on social media sites, after four teenagers across the country allegedly took their own lives while completing the challenge-based suicide game. We will take action against any site or link that promotes such a game or challenge,” he said. The Blue Whale Challenge is a game wherein a group of administrators or a certain curator gives a participant a task to complete daily for a period of 50 days — at the end of which the participant is told to commit suicide. Certain activities related to this challenge have been noticed on some groups,” the DCP said. Confirming this, DCP (cyber crime) Anyesh Roy said the team has been tasked with keeping track of any activities related to the game “round the clock”..