22-Year-Old Meerut youth dies during mobile gaming: Experts warn about gaming addiction risks

By: Kashish Chawla

On: Monday, February 9, 2026 1:46 PM

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23 Year Old Man Death Online Gaming: A tragic incident has been reported from the Delhi Gate police station area in Meerut, where a 22-year-old man died under some serious circumstances resulted while playing online games. According to his family, suddenly his blood pressure spiked during game play, causing his heath to face difficulty and started deteriorating rapidly. preliminary reports suggests that cause of death may have been a rupture blood vessel in his brain, or a brain hemorrhage.

Meerut Online Gaming Death News

Meerut Online Gaming Death News
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This deceased has been identified as Mohammad Kaif, who is the resident of Khairnagar Goolar Wali. Family members say that Kaif spent long hours playing online games on his mobile phones. On the day, when this incident occurred he was busy with earphones on and suddenly complained of a severe headache and restlessness, before collapsing and losing his consciousness.

23 Year Old Man Death Online Gaming

23 Year Old Man Death Online Gaming
23 Year Old Man Death Online Gaming (source- social media)

Kaif was immediately take to a nearby hospital and later was referred to Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi due to critical health conditions. He was treated there for two day, despite his medical intervention, the could not be saved from death. Officials from the hospital’s sources reveals that his blood pressure was soared above 300, which is dangerously high level.

Family unaware of his gaming habits; experts warn long hours of gaming

23 Year Old Man Death Online Gaming
23 Year Old Man Death Online Gaming (source- social media)

His family said that ” they were unaware of this extent of his gaming habits and have chosen not to speak extensively about the tragedy. Statements from his neighbourhood mentions that Kaif often spent hours while playing games on his phones. Experts notes that prolonged hours of gaming, stress and high level of excitements levels can result in severe health consequences. Basically, this affects more drastically to young people.

Similar cases happened in Ghaziabad where, three sisters, committed suicide due to gaming addiction. While keeping all such cases in view, doctors emphasise that excessive screen time, emotional stress and addiction to online games can impact physical and mental health, particularly among youth.

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Kashish Chawla

Kashish Chawla is a content writer at Punjab Kesari. A journalist with 1.5+ experience years across digital media. She is graduated from Bachelors in Journalism and Mass communication from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, worked with Zee Media as a website content writer, and as a reported with Indianewslive.