On Thursday, Maharashtra Police filed a complaint against 10 persons after a 15-year-old minor girl committed suicide in Nashik district. Notably, the girl decided to end her life after being stalked and threatened by a 22-year-old man identified as Kalam Izhar Mansuri. According to the media reports, the family members of the man also threatened the girl after which she decided to end her life by consuming poison.
As per the complaint by the parents of the girl the other accused persons booked in the case are Nana Khala (Kalam’s mother), Jahangir Sheikh, Bablu Sheikh, Munna Sheikh, Laden Mansuri, Sameer Bablu Sheikh, Nadda Mansuri Sheikh, Anjum Sayyed and Sahil Sayyed. The accused persons have been booked under sections 107, 351 (2), 3 (5), and 78 of the Bharatiya Nyay Samhita, 2023, and section 12 of the POCSO Act, 2012.
According to the media reports, since the year 2022 the victim girl was being harassed by the primary accused. The girl was in the school at that time. The accused used to block the girl’s way from home to school and say that he liked her. At times he has also forced the girl to talk to him and take his phone number for communication. However, the girl told this at home the very first time it happened.
The parents of the girl started taking extra care of her and they also talked to the parents of the accused and told them that they would not want their daughter to go through any trouble. However, the accused continued to stalk and harass the victim.
The girl was forced to take her 10th board exams from home due to the harassment. The girl was admitted to an Arts College in the Devlali area of Nashik. On 23rd August, the girl failed to return home at her regular hour of 12:15 pm. The mother of the girl got a call after an hour saying that her daughter was found unconscious on the road near a bridge. The call was from accused Anjum and Sahil Sayyed.
The duo called the mother and said that they found the girl unconscious on the road and were taking her to the Bitco Hospital. They also asked the woman to reach the hospital as early as possible. The two accused had fled by the time the mother reached the hospital. As per the FIR, the girl also told her mother that she was feeling scared.
“Doctors checked her and gave her medicine. But on our way home, my daughter started vomiting and feeling unconscious. At that time she told me that she was being harassed by Kalam and his family. She told me that Kalam used to force her to marry him and threaten her. His mother had also been threatening my daughter to marry his son. She also mentioned the names of Jahangir, Bablu, Munna, Laden, Samir, and Nadda who used to force her to marry Kalam,” the mother of the girl said in the FIR.
On the same day, the girl was declared dead. However, on 25th August, the family of the girl checked the CCTV footage close to Anjum Sayyed’s house and in the CCTV footage, the family saw that Anjum and Sahil took the girl on their scooter to the hospital.
However, they claimed that they had found the girl unconscious on the road near the bridge, after which they took her to the hospital. On suspicion, the girl’s parents have also booked the two.
This is the second such case reported from Maharashtra within 10 days. On 19th August, a 16-year-old girl had committed suicide 8 months after facing harassment at the hands of one individual identified as Kasim Yasin Pathan.
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