Mumbai:
A 14-year-old girl in Mumbai allegedly committed suicide on Tuesday after being stalked on Facebook by a friend.
The girl's family accuses the police of refusing to register their complaint against the alleged stalker, a 16-year-old boy who has been arrested and sent to a juvenile home.
The boy had allegedly posted offensive content on the girl's Facebook account. Her father has also alleged that the boy and his father accosted her on several occasions.
"He used to catch her whenever she went to tuitions. When she went to buy something, his father would catch hold of her, would force her to come to his house, influence her... They tortured her so much that this happened," he said.
Police say the girl, a Class 9 student from Mumbai's suburb of Kandivali, was found hanging in her bedroom last evening.
Her mother told the cops that the teen had been studying in her bedroom. At 6 pm, she did not respond to her mother who knocked repeatedly on the locked door.
The girl's father then broke open the door and found her hanging.
He has also expression an apprehension that the boy may have sent disturbing messages to his daughter yesterday and driven her to suicide.
"We are examining the girl's social networking account to substantiate the claims of the girl's father... We are inquiring about messages and Whatsapp too," said H Pimple, senior police inspector of Kandivali police station.
The girl's father has also alleged that the cops didn't shown any interest when he, alongwith his daughter, had gone to the local police station to file a complaint.
"We are also probing whether the negligence of police officials led to the father and the girl returning without lodging a complaint," the police officer said.