Jamshedpur : In yet another case of suicide, a 16-year-old girl committed suicide by hanging at her house in Parasnagar under Mango police station area. The girl was identified as Shreya Kumari, daughter of Ashok Kumar Sharma, who works in a private construction company.
The police have recovered the body and sent it to the MGM Medical College mortuary having registered a case of suicide on the basis of a statement made by the deceased’s father.
The deceased was the eldest daughter of Ashok Sharma and she had stopped going to school two years ago. The youngest daughter being just 11-year-old. According to relatives, last evening, the members of Sharma family had gone to attend a marriage ceremony in Sakchi, but Shreya did not go to the party complaining that she had an acute headache. Shreya had used her `dupatta’ and a wooden stool in hanging herself from the ceiling fan.
Some relative hinted that a love affair may be the reason. Though there was no written evidence of it, but the girl was involved in an affair with a youth of other community.