Class 12 boy ends life, online dare suspected

Shubhadeep Choudhury

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Tribune News Service

Kolkata, August 23

The presence of graffiti of “Illuminati” at the site of alleged suicide by a young school boy in Kurseong near Darjeeling in West Bengal has raised suspicion that the boy might have killed himself after getting sucked into performing some bizarre ritual following instructions given online by the so-called Bavarian secret society to its adherents.

Talking to The Tribune, Pinaki Dutta, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) of Kurseong, confirmed that Illuminati was found written at the place where the boy, a Class XII student of St Alphonsus School in Kurseong, committed suicide.

“It was an abandoned building belonging to the state government’s department of animal resources development where the boy hanged himself between the intervening night of August 21 and August 22. The building is on the outskirts of Kurseong and the locality is known as the St Marys Hill area. He was a local boy who was born and brought up at Kurseong,” Dutta said.

The SDPO, however, added that while ‘Illuminati’ was found scribbled on the wall of the place where the boy killed himself, police were not yet certain if the suicide was a part of some ritual connected with Illuminati games played online.