BHOPAL: A 9-year-old boy choked to death apparently trying to imitate a suicide scene shown in a

television programme

at Gwalior district in Madhya Pradesh.

Police said the incident took place on Tuesday evening when the class 3 boy Mohit, a resident of Pintoo Park tried to copy stunt from one of his favourate

cartoon series

.

His father Pramod Mishra, a plumber by profession was out on work while his mother Deepika had gone out to buy vegetables leaving Mohit and daughter home.

While watching cartoon he tied a rope around his neck, threw other end of it on the ceiling fan and started rotating it. Rope tightened and chocked him to death.

His sister, who was younger than Mohit, called up neibhours for help after she saw him numb on the floor minutes later.

They took him to a private hospital where doctors declared him 'brought dead'. Post-mortem was conducted on Wednesday morning.