New Delhi: Three minor girls fatally jumped off from the ninth floor of a residential building in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad, after their parents allegedly stopped them from playing online games.
The girls, aged 12, 14 and 16 years, died on the spot after jumping from the residential tower in Ghaziabad’s Bharat City society around 2 a.m. Wednesday, Shalimar Garden Assistant Commissioner of Police Atul Kumar Singh said in a statement, adding that the three sisters were declared brought dead by doctors at a hospital in Loni.
According to preliminary findings, the three were addicted to online games and were not regularly attending school. However, a detailed assessment is yet to be done by the Ghaziabad Police.
The Ghaziabad Police spokesperson said that senior officers, including DCP Nimish Patil, reached the site for inspection and that further investigation was on.
The episode comes months after the government banned online games, in all forms and manifestations, through the enactment of the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025.
At the time of the Bill’s introduction in Parliament, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that approximately 45 crore people were negatively affected by online money games and had lost more than Rs 20,000 crores as a result.
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(Edited by Tony Rai)
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