A video game may have prompted the double murders at Gaur City on Tuesday night, the Noida police said on Thursday .
A mother-daughter duo was found stabbed to death at their residence in Gaur City of Greater Noida on Tuesday night.
The prime suspect is the woman’s 16-year-old son, who was the only other person present in the house at the time of the incident. The police had found a pair of scissors covered in blood, a bat and bloodstained clothes.
According to Gautam Buddh Nagar SSP Love Kumar, Soumya Agarwal, the husband of the victim, told them that his son played a “destructive” video game.
“We are probing the case from all angles. The video game angle is also part of investigation. We can’t hold the teenager guilty till we find him,” Mr. Kumar said.
According to Mr. Agarwal, his son was hooked to an online game called High School Gangster, which had different task like injuring people.
“My son spent hours playing that game. I started observing a change in his attitude and his performance in school dipped. I took away his mobile phone in September as a result,” Mr. Agarwal told journalists.
He said if his son is found guilty of the murders, the boy should not be held accountable for his actions as he may have been influenced by the game and called for the arrest of the game developer instead.
He alleged that his wife and daughter were murdered by professionals and his son had been kidnapped.
“The murders were well executed as the accused did not leave any clues. It seems they were asleep when they were murdered. There was no sign of use of force. The house was not ransacked,” he added.
“My son was very close to his mother and sister. The investigators should focus on saving his life as I fear he is in danger,” he said.
