A 15-year-old boy, addicted to video games, has run away from his home in Mumbai’s Vile Parle after allegedly being scolded for excessive phone use, the police said.
The teen’s grandfather noticed the boy missing some time after midnight on August 30.
According to the police, the Class 11 boy’s father, on returning home at night after work, scolded him for playing video games the whole day and not studying.
The boy lives with his father and grandfather in Vile Parle (East), as his mother has separated from his father and lives in Delhi.
The police have registered a kidnapping case in accordance with a Supreme Court’s order and have begun an investigation to trace the teenager based on his grandfather’s complaint.
According to the police, the teenager was playing video games on his grandfather’s mobile phone on Tuesday afternoon and the elderly man informed his son, who was at work, about the matter.
On knowing about it, the boy questioned his grandfather and threatened to leave the house as his father would scold him at night, the First Information Report stated.
In the night, the boy’s father allegedly yelled at the teenager who had skipped coaching classes for playing games on mobile phone and the boy got angry, the police said.
“After having a meal everyone went to sleep. At around 1am the grandfather woke up to go to visit the washroom and then he noticed that his grandson was not there at his place. He woke up his son and the two started looking for the teenager in the area, but in vain,” the FIR stated.
