Kerala: Teenage girl kills self after being harassed by man she met online
The accused used to harass the girl, waylaying her on her way to school threatening to harm her father and obstruct the marriage of a female family member.
A 16-year-old girl from Kerala's Badiyadka died
after consuming poison on Monday. According to the police, the girl last week
consumed poinson after facing alleged harassment from a man she befriended on
social media.
The high school student was found unconscious from
the effects of poison inside her house in Badiyadka last Tuesday evening, the
police officials said.
Despite being in critical condition and being
transferred to a hospital in Bengaluru, she was brought back to a hospital in
Mangalore as her health showed no improvement.
The officials siad whe has died around 2 o'clock on
Monday morning and the body has been handed over to the relatives after
post-mortem at a government hospital.
The girl's family alleged that she consumed poison
due to the constant harassment by the young man she met on social media.
The police said they had recieved a complaint from
her family earlier and arrested the accused, 24-year-old Anwar, in connection
with the incident. Another man - named Sahil - was also arrested from the
limits of Kumbla police station for colluding with Anwar.
"We had tried to end the relationship between
Anwar and the girl when we discovered it. We also warned Anwar and blocked his
phone number from my daughter's mobile phone," the girl's father revealed.
Police said Anwar was arrested in Bengaluru and a
thorough investigation has been initiated into the incident.
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