Ahmedabad, Sep 7 (PTI) The Gujarat government today announced a cash reward of Rs 1 lakh to those providing information about the "administrators and curators" of the deadly Blue Whale Challenge. "The state government has banned Blue Whale Challenge. "If anybody provides information on its curator/administrator, he will be given Rs 1 lakh reward and his name will be kept secret," he said. The Blue Whale challenge is undertaken using social media apps, online gaming groups, online community messaging groups, and so on, where a certain administrator or curator targets the vulnerable young player through private chat platform. The curator then gives the player a daily task which culminates on Day 50 with a direction to the player to commit suicide.

Source: India Today September 07, 2017 18:22 UTC