Teenager commits suicide after denied to play video games

Hyderabad: 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 Kuntloor in Ranga Reddy district on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Monday night. He sustained critical injuries and was shifted to a private hospital where the doctors declared him dead.

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 from the situation, the teenager decided to commit suicide.