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Teenager commits suicide after parents refuse to buy him a video game

Updated on: 08 August,2017 12:30 PM IST  |  Hyderabad
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An engineering student committed suicide after his parents refused to buy him a video game, police said on Tuesday

Teenager commits suicide after parents refuse to buy him a video game

Hyderabad teenager suicide


An engineering student committed suicide after his parents refused to buy him a video game, police said on Tuesday.


G. Abhinay (17) jumped from the roof of his two-storey house at Kuntlur in Ranga Reddy district on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Monday night. He sustained critical injuries and was shifted to a private hospital where he died.


A student of B.Tech first year, Abhinay had been asking his father G. Srinivas for the last one week to buy him a video game costing Rs 3,000. The father refused and advised him to concentrate on studies.

Upset, the teenager committed suicide.


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