Addicted to PUBG, BTech student ends life in Anantapur

Tirupati: An engineering student ended his life over not being able to play Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), even as his parents searched in vain for their missing son for almost five days. The incident took place at the Revenue Colony in Anantapur.
According to police, Kurkuri Kiran Kumar Reddy, who was addicted to PUBG, went missing from his home about five days ago.His parents initially thought he might have gone to his friend’s place without informing them, which was his usual habit. The parents panicked as their son’s whereabouts were not known even after two days.
Late on Friday evening, the boy’s uncle, who searched the entire house, found Kiran dead in a small store room built on the first floor of the building recently.
His family members said Kiran Kumar was pursuing his final year BTech at Chennai and had gotten addicted to PUBG. He used to play with Bitcoin and had invested nearly Rs 3.5 lakh, which he borrowed from his mother. Kiran Kumar had gradually pawned his laptop, phone and other personal properties to play the game.
After his college closed down due to the Covid-19 induced lockdown, Kiran returned to Anantapur and was staying with his grandparents. His grandparents grew restless after watching their grandson addicted to PUBG and asked his parents to take Kiran Kumar home.
While Kiran returned to his parents at, he was very disturbed ever since PUBG was banned.
His postmortem related formalities were completed at Anantapur GGH on Saturday.
Anantapur police have registered a case and are further investigating.