Harassed & threatened by stalker, 17-year-old girl hangs self to death in Gurugram
A 17-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide in Gurugram on Sunday, reportedly after a youngster harassed her and pressured her for marriage.
Gurugram: A 17-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide at her residence in Pataudi area of Haryana’s Gurugram on Sunday night, reportedly after she was repeatedly harassed by a local youth. The girl’s father, a private school teacher, has alleged that the youth had been stalking his teenage daughter for the last several months and was pressuring her for marriage.
The deceased girl had recently completed Class 12. Her father stated that the youth, identified as Rohit, used to harass his 17-year-old daughter, who was the eldest of his three children, whenever she stepped out of the house. He was allegedly pressuring her to elope with him. He had threatened to ruin her reputation for not reciprocating his romantic feelings.
The girl later narrated her ordeal to her father. Following this, her father confronted the accused on a phone call. The youth, however, did not mend his ways. Later, his mother was informed about the matter.
“My younger daughter informed me that Rohit was harassing my older daughter. On June 7, one hour cousins called Rohith’s mother and requested her to tell her son not to harass my daughter. She had assured that your son will stop following my daughter,” a report by The Times of India quoted the deceased girl’s father as saying.
Despite this, Rohit allegedly did not stop stalking the minor girl. One day, he intercepted her near a market. He threatened her saying that he would kidnap her if she didn’t talk to him. “Rohit had threatened to kidnap her in the presence of her younger sister and also threaten to defame my other daughters,” the girl’s father said.
On August 7, the accused phoned the girl and asked her to elope with him. She apprised her father of this. Subsequently, her father dialled the accused and threatened to approach the police if he did not stop harassing his daughter.
The teenager, under these circumstances, allegedly took her own life by hanging herself from a ceiling fan using a dupatta. No suicide note was recovered from the spot. Based on her father’s complaint, police have registered a case of abetment to suicide under the Indian Penal Code. So far, no arrest has been recorded in the case.
News Credit: Times Now News
