17-yr-old girl hangs self in police station
The girl's mother alleged that their neighbours had kidnapped her as they wanted her to marry their son.
New Delhi: A 17-year-old girl was found hanging at Tilak Vihar police station in West Delhi on Sunday morning. The police said they were planning to send her to Nari Niketan, but she ran to a room at the station and locked herself. The police broke open the door and found her hanging, an officer said. The girl’s mother alleged that their neighbours had kidnapped her as they wanted her to marry their son.
According to the police, the girl had come to the police station around 2 am on Satur-day, and said that she didn’t want to go home. “Our neighbour abdu-cted her. They were forcing my daughter to marry their son, but I objected to it as she was a minor. Then I got a call from the police. I saw her hanging in one room while my three sons were locked in another,” the mother alleged.
Vijay Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of police (West), said the girl had come to the police station around 2 am on Saturday, and said that she didn’t want to go home. “There was a dispute between the girl’s family and their neighbours. So both the families were called to the police station,” he said.