The Maharashtra Police filed a complaint on August 29 against ten individuals following the suicide of a 15-year-old girl in Nashik district. The girl committed suicide after being stalked and threatened by a 22-year-oldman named Kalam Izhar Mansuri. According to the media reports, the man’s family members also issued threats to the girl, which led her to consume poison.
Based on the complaint filed by the girl’s parents, the other individuals charged in the case include 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 have been booked under sections 107, 351(2), 3(5), and 78 of the Bharatiya Nyay Samhita, 2023, as well as section 12 of the POCSO Act, 2012. According to the media reports, the victim had been harassed by the primary accused, Kalam Izhar Mansuri, since 2022, when she was still in school.
The accused would block her path between home and school, expressing his feelings for her and at times forcing her to converse with him and take his phone number.
Due to the harassment, the girl was compelled to take her 10th board exams from home. Later she enrolled in an Arts College in the Devlali area of Nashik. On August 23, she didn’t return home at her usual time of 12:15 PM. Her mother received a call informing her that her daughter had been found unconscious on the road near a bridge. The call came from the accused, Anjum and Sahil Sayyed.
The duo called the mother, informing her that they had found the girl unconscious on the road and were taking her to Bitco Hospital. They urged her to arrive at the hospital as quickly as possible. However, by the time the mother arrived, the two accused had already fled. As per the FIR, the girl later told her mother that she had been feeling scared.
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