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Three days after a 15-year-old girl committed suicide by hanging herself at her home in outer Delhi’s Sultanpuri, police have registered a case of abetment to suicide. According to police, the girl’s family has alleged she was depressed as was being stalked and harassed by a married man who lives in the locality.
DCP (outer) Seju P Kuruvilla said the girl committed suicide on September 19. “The family recently found that she was being harassed and stalked. On Saturday, they gave a written complaint, following which we registered a case of abetment to suicide and started a probe.”
Police said the girl’s mother found her hanging from the ceiling fan on September 19. No suicide note was recovered from the spot.
The girl’s father, in a written complaint submitted on Saturday, said a man from the vicinity would harass his daughter every time she would go to school or for tuition. The girl studied in Class X at a government school.
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