Lucknow: Having lost Rs 50,000 in an online fraud, a class XII boy went missing after leaving a suicide note at his home in Armapur area of the city. Police said Nitin Kumar (16) disappeared from his Armapur home on Monday. The family launched a frantic search for him, but in vain and subsequently, lodged a missing complaint at the Armapur police station.
During investigations, when police checked the boy’s room and bag on Tuesday morning, a note was found written in Hindi stating his guilt and apology to his father for losing Rs 50,000 while playing an online game on his father’s mobile phone. The note read: ‘Papa, I made a big mistake…please don’t look for me. I will commit suicide by jumping into the canal.”
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP) East Akash Patel said the boy got scared after losing his father’s money and left the house. “We have come to know from the family members that he had been cheated while playing online games on his father’s mobile phone, earlier too and his father had scolded him,” said Patel.
He added that five police teams had been formed to search for the missing student. “We are scanning CCTV footage, besides contacting all those whom the boy was in touch with prior to leaving home,” the official said. Nitin’s father Nitesh Kumar, originally a resident of Chhapra, Bihar, is a machine operator in the Ordnance Factory in Armapur.
