nawanshahr in july 2004 campaigners across europe had demanded a video game manhunt be banned after it was blamed for the gory murder of a 14yearold british boy by his 17yearold friend sadly in india while time and again the media has highlighted the adverse effects of video games on children no such campaign has ever been organised to create awareness about violence dished out by playstations the 10yearboy who was arrested on friday for killing his threeyearold friend on september 24 is yet another case of what video game addiction can lead torahon residents always knew this 10yearold as a very naughty kid but could never have imagined that he would stab his threeyearold friend lovepreet with a broken glass bottle the case was initially thought to be that of human sacrifice along with this boy an 11yearold verbally and mentally challenged boy was arrested too however he was later released as his role was under investigationssp b chandra shekhar said the accused had lost his father some years ago and his mother worked as a domestic help with little or no monitoring at home he stopped going to school and during the past three years had got addicted to playing video games his mother tried sending him to tailoring classes but that was no deterrent for his video game addictionhe confessed that he had killed lovepreet said chandra shekhar the accused boy has been sent to juvenile home