UP: 16-year-old girl commits suicide after father asks to kill mother, siblings

A 16-year-old-girl committed suicide after she was given a pistol and asked to shoot her mother and two siblings by her father and uncle. The girl left a suicide note.

The girl’s body was found hanging in her room on 16th April when the incident happened in Shanti Nagar, Devri Road of Sadar police limits but the matter was brought to notice only after a video clip made by the girl started doing rounds on the internet.

The clip, seemingly made before the incident, shows the girl saying the she wanted to become a police officer just to give justice to her mother and elder brother and small sister.

In the video, the girl, claimed that her uncle gave her a country-made pistol and asked her to shoot her mother and two siblings, but instead, she had resolved to end her own life.

The girl also alleged that her father and uncles and a cousin assaulted and mentally harassed her mother, siblings and herself.

"I wanted to live, to see myself become a police officer and to provide justice to my mother and siblings. But I am ending my life, as I am tired now. We, all four, are mentally tortured and harassed on a daily basis by my father, two uncles, and cousin over property,” suicide note read.

The police have taken her father into custody on charges of abetment to suicide, while the rest of the accused are on the run.

The post-mortem reported stated asphyxia due to hanging as the cause of death.

The girl in her suicide note further stated that "prior to marrying my mother, my father had murdered his first wife and her four children, including a foetus. My uncle, too, has served jail term. They molested me and did wrong things. They all must be given stringent punishment after my death."

On the basis of the FIR filed by the girl’s mother, on 16th April, the family was assaulted by the four men.

Later in the day, the girl was found dead. "The four men murdered my daughter, while I was out for work," alleged the mother.

SHO Kamlesh Kumar Singh said, "After the autopsy, a case of IPC section 302 (murder) was changed to 306 (abetment to suicide). We have arrested the father, but the others are still on the run."

"We are investigating all the allegations made by the girl prior to her suicide. We will add more sections as the case progresses," he said.

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