An individual’s addiction to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, a fight-for-survival mobile game popularly known as PUBG, was a crucial input for Manikpur police in Vasai to solve a missing-cum-kidnapping case of a minor girl, who eloped with her partner on Valentine’s Day.

They eloped on February 14 from Vasai, reached Chandigarh and the cops began their crackdown on the man 41 days of the incident. A team had to camp in Chandigarh for six days to make the operation successful as the boyfriend learned some evasion tricks by watching crime shows on television, said the police.