Ghaziabad: Smarting from the year in the house when his parents refused to leave him out during a pandemic, a 12-year-old girl booked Hindi’s words as a message status on his parents’ cellphone and his parents.
When parents took the phone, it made him angry.
Cursy words turn into the threat of kidnapping.
One of his parents’s cellphone, he wrote that their seven-year-old son – his younger brother – would be killed if they did not pay Rs 1 Crore.
When the parents who were confused, believed their telephone was hacked, called the police and handed the device to be examined, he used newspaper cuttings to post the next message.
It is A4 sheet with the word ‘kill’.
He put it at the main gate of their house.
That’s when the CCTV camera was installed outside of capturing it in action.
Parents have bought for their daughter, a class VII student from a private English secondary school in Ghaziabad, telephone and SIM card so he can attend his online class.
Last Friday, his father – an engineer at a private company in Noida – was surprised to see Hindi’s words as the status of whatsapp her daughter.
Scoldened, the girl told her parents that the phone was hacked.
But they took it from him apart from the girl begging them that he would keep the device safe.
That night, he found his mother’s phone on the table.
He entered his WhatsApp account and wrote similar words on his status.
The 12-year-old did the same thing on his father’s phone.
“Some of their relatives saw posts and called their parents to ask about the violation.
His parents were surprised.
But somehow, they believed that they were victims of telephone hacking,” Sumit Kumar said, a sub-inspector with Ghaziabad police cyber cells.
On July 24, the girl took her mother’s phone again and booked the threat of kidnapping.
His father approached the police station Sahibabad and filed a complaint.
The police asked Cyber cells to look into this case.
“Their cellphone was checked for malware, but no one was found.
We reset the phone and return it to the girl’s father.
We told him not to give a cellphone to anyone,” Kumar said.
There was no suspicious status message appearing on their cellphone after this but this Wednesday, the family found the ‘kill’ note.
A police team who then visited the house began to check the recording of the CCTV camera that the girl’s father had just installed.
That’s where the answer is lying down.
“In one clip, the girl can be seen attaching a piece of paper.
He claimed to post all status messages on whatsapp and said he was upset with his parents because he did not let him out of the house to meet his friends.
He said they would not let him watch TV Or play games on the phone, but always push it to learn.
He told us that he got the idea to send threats from the film and TV series, “Kumar said.
Saket Tiwari, a psychiatrist, said the increase in screen time was a problem that needs to be managed by parents.
“Now after his parents know about his drastic steps, they have to handle them carefully.
They must make him feel special.
Counseling sessions are needed for parents and children,” he said.
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