Agnidev Dutta, a student of class nine, purportedly choked to death at his Salt Lake residence on Wednesday night when he attempted what a relative claimed to be a karate stunt displayed in the WWE shows.
"He was watching the WWE and aping a karate move. He had climbed a chair and tied one end of the belt to the window. His mother had gone to the toilet at that time. When she came back, she saw him lying on the floor with the rope tied in a knot around his neck," said the relative.
The WWE condoled the teenager's death, but claimed that "tying a rope or anything around one's neck doesn't relate to anything seen on WWE programming".