A 16-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself on the premises of a police station in west Delhi on Saturday evening, the police said.
“The girl, a native of Bangladesh, who worked as a domestic help in south Delhi, had gone missing from her home in Vasant Kunj on Friday. A passerby spotted her near Rithala Metro station in west Delhi on Saturday and took her to the Vijay Vihar police station,” said a police officer.
The police informed her parents and asked the girl to stay in the ladies’ changing room, where she hung herself from the ceiling with her stole. A police personnel spotted her hanging around 5 pm.
The police said that the girl was depressed as her parents were pressing her to marry against her wishes.
“On Friday afternoon, she left her house around 11 am without telling her parents anything properly. When she did not come back after an hour, they started searching for her and later informed the police in the evening,” the officer said.
A case of kidnapping was registered at the Vasant Kunj north police station, the officer added.
The girl’s body has been sent to the Baba Bhim Rao Ambedkar Hospital for the post-mortem examination.
Meanwhile, five quacks were booked for illegally running medical clinics in separate places at the jhuggi clusters of Sector-8 and 10 in Noida, reports PTI.
A health department team made raids at five clinics and asked for degrees from their owners, who failed to produce it, th police said.