Teen flees home after taking Rs 10 lakh from parents’ account to play PUBG

A 16-year-old who had withdrawn Rs 10 lakh from his parents’ bank account to get an ID for PUBG game and was scared they would find out about it fled home after leaving behind a note earlier this week, police said.

After his parents complained to the police, a team from crime branch (Unit X) tracked him and reunited him with his family.

A crime branch officer said that after the parents found the note from their son at their residence on Wednesday, saying that he was leaving home and would never return, they approached the local police. The local police alerted the crime branch and the Muskan unit that looks for missing children.