The recent unfortunate suicides in India by the teens have
been linked to infamous Blue Whale game by media as well as few police
agencies. There was huge hue and cry about the game and the government acted
with lightening speed to issue directives to the all major social media giants
to disable any links providing access to the suicidal trap game. The
government’s speedier actions need to be lauded.
There were reports published in many newspapers across India
about few deaths which were attributed to the teens playing the deadly blue
whale game and reached the last stage of killing themselves but none of them
provided any follow up write-up based on facts and carried out their duty
towards society of creating awareness and presenting the facts of the matter.
Why it could be so? Why no media thought it proper to carry out a follow up
story?
It is rumored that there are about 50 tasks provided to the
person playing the game and he is required to present evidence (digital) of
completing each task and then only he is assigned next task by the admin. Few
tasks are hearing loud music, waking up at 4.20 am and visiting Graveyards or
Crematories, walking on the railway tracks, inflicting bodily injuries upon self,
remaining in isolation from the family etc.
There are acknowledgements from police officers about cause
of suicide not being the children’s addiction towards Blue Whale game and
neither any digital forensic report is available in public domain which
confirms the root cause of death being Blue Whale. If entire reporting or
instructing is happening through digitalised communications is it so impossible
to track the evidences? It is accepted fact that digital footprints can’t be
erased forever then how it is possible that in either of so called Blue Whale
suicides no evidence can be gathered by the police in India yet?
And this is the reason which raises suspicion in my mind
about the root cause of unfortunate suicides by few teens being attributed to
Blue Whale game. I am unable to make out any reason why it was attributed to
Blue Whale game and our government acted so hurriedly in imposing the ban on
the same.
Why this huge Hue and Cry about one game supposedly
developed by some Russian person and allegedly reason behind the teens suicides
in Russia? The game is not available on any website not has its links available
on any popular social media sites like Facebook/Whatsapp/Twitter nor any search
engines like Google and Yahoo have any traces of links leading to Blue Whale
game. Even the Russian social networking site VK, which was blamed to
facilitate the access of links to Blue Whale game, does not have any notable
presence in India nor any students across India which I am interacting with
never reported about the knowledge about this game nor CYBER AWARENESS ORGANISATION’S
CYBER CRIME HELPLINE received any reports about presence of such deadly game
available anywhere.
And that’s why I have every reason to doubt the very
existence of this BLUE WHALE game in India. I again reiterate that if
government has received some facts then it has every right to ban the game and
I also strongly support the same but let those facts come in public domain. Or
else students of cyber space like me will remain curious and suspicious about
intentions of the government to ban selective websites/links.
