Solapur boy suspected of playing Blue Whale game saved just in time

Solapur 14yearold leaves home with mums mobile phone and a bag at 6 am Parents discover him missing an hour later and panicA Solapur teen suspected to be playing the Blue Whale Challenge was saved just in the nick of time The 14yearold who was on his way to Pune allegedly for completing a task was intercepted on board a SolapurPune ST bus due to timely action and smooth coordination between two district police officersThey inform their neighbour a police naik With Solapur polices help his location is traced and conductor of the ST bus the boy is in alertedOn the trailThe incident happened on August 9 After the boys parents didnt find him in his room in the morning they panicked and immediately went to their neighbour a police naik with the Solapur traffic division Around 8 am the youngsters location was traced to Sawaleshwar on the SolapurPune highway by zeroing in on his mothers mobile phone that he was carrying The family then went to the nearest ST stand and contacted the conductor who was on that bus giving him the boys description and telling him to not allow the teenager to get down anywhereAlso read Blue Whale Challenge Why some kids are prone to take up suicidal online gameIncharge of a police station in a PuneSolapur border town is told he intercepts the bus taking the boy in custody IllustrationRavi JadhavAccording to the police naik Amol Yadav Solapur city police control room was the first to be informed personnel from there later coordinated with the Pune Rural control and incharge of Bhigwan police station on the border of Pune and SolapurAlso read Manpreet was not playing the Blue Whale Challenge say Andheri teens familyThe incharge Nilkanth Rathod told midday I received a call from Solapur control that a 14yearold boy playing the Blue Whale game was headed in my directionhellip I rushed and intercepted the ST bus around 1030 am the boy was taken into custody and the Vijapur Naka police station which falls under Solapur city was informed Personnel from there then contacted his parents who came to Bhigwan police station around 2 pmAlso read Blue Whale suicide game creator reveals why he invented the gameSources said when he was intercepted on the bus his condition wasnt very good silent and unaware of his surroundings Later his parents found a cutter a blade and a rope in his bagAbsent and tenseAccording to a family friend the parents both private firm employees had noticed several changes in the behaviour of their son a Std IX student over the past 15 days He didnt have a mobile phone and would use his mothers saying he needed it for the alarm to get up in the morningAlso read Blue Whale game Heres how Instagram is helping prevent suicidesSources said he hadnt been sleeping well since a week and hadnt gone to school for the past nine days When his parents would ask him why he hadnt gone to school he would say he wasnt feeling well or give some other excuse Active in sports the boy hadnt gone for his daily practice at a cricket club for the past 15 days eitherRelated photo storyAll you need to know about the mysterious Blue Whale suicides