Friday, 01 MARCH 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
A minor girl died under suspicious circumstances on Thursday morning . She worked as a house help in a house in Dehradun’s Race Course area. The home owners claimed that the victim tried to commit suicide in the morning after which they took her to the hospital where doctors declared her as brought dead, the Dehradun senior superintendent of police Ajai Singh said. The victim was a teenager who hailed from Bihar and purportedly worked as a full-time house help. Her parents are labourers who live in the Dharampur area which she used to visit occasionally. The victim’s family members and several people gathered around the house in the afternoon after learning of her death. They accused the owners of killing the girl. Some neighbours have also claimed that the owners used to physically abuse her. Some people also raised ruckus at the spot and allegedly damaged parts of the house. The police stated that they received the information about the girl after she was declared dead by doctors. “The victim’s employers stated that they were shifting their things from the first floor to the second floor when they noticed they had not seen the victim for a long time. On going upstairs, they found her hanging from a noose tied to the ceiling in the bathroom. The police gathered all evidence from the spot and found that CCTV footage showed the girl going into the bathroom with a stool. The post-mortem report also showed suicidal hanging as the cause of death,” the SSP said. Many people also claimed that the victim’s body had several bruises and wounds and also suspected a sexual assault. However, Singh stated that no such claims were proved to be true in the post-mortem report. However, he said that it was disturbing that a young girl had to commit suicide. It is a serious matter of concern and the police will investigate the matter from every angle to find out what prompted her to go to such extreme lengths. He said that the police also detained the victim’s employers after her parents registered a case of murder against them. The police will also act against them under relevant acts for employing a minor against the ant-child labour law. The investigation is ongoing, he added.
