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 account on the popular social networking site. Her father alleges that the boy also followed her and accosted her on her way to tuition.
The police say the girl, a Class 9 student from Kandivli in Mumbai's outskirts, was found hanging in her bedroom last evening.
Her mother told the police that she 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 broke open the door and found her hanging.
"Whatever information we have got is that the boy was stalking the girl. We got it from the girl's father. We are inquiring about messages and Whatsapp too," said H Pimple, senior police inspector of Kandivli police station.
The girl's father alleged that a 16-year-old boy had been posting obscene messages on her Facebook account for the past few days. Four days ago, he had gone to the local police station with his daughter to lodge a complaint, but the police had not shown any interest, he alleged.
The father believes 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 also probing whether the negligence of police officials led to the father and the girl returning without lodging a complaint," the police officer said.