Girl found hanging, police suspect suicide

A teenage girl was found hanging with a rope apparently prepared for the purpose along the back wall of a house in near Gulmohar Park in Lower Bardhman area under Lalpur Police Station on Friday morning.

Taking the case as suicide, prima facie, the police sent the body for post mortem and is awaiting for the reports to decide further line of investigation, said Lalpur Police Station In-Charge Ramod Narayan Singh on Friday.

The police claimed that the mobile phone recovered from the scene couldn’t initially provide any suspect or reason for her committing suicide. However, a bottle half filled with poisonous substance popularly known as Phenyl was found lying on the ground near her bag which was recovered from the crime scene. She is said to have returned from Lohardaga on Thursday itself. However, the police are trying to decode reason for the girl choosing that particular house to commit suicide where she doesn’t appear to have any connection with, prima facie.

 “This is certainly something, which even we are trying to understand. The girl has been identified as one Sunita Kujoor who originally hailed from neighbouring Lohardaga and was a student of class-11 in Mahendra Nath College. Her father is a farmer with no sound family background. We came to know that she lived with her aunt (father’s sister) in Chiraundi area in Ranchi for some time before staying with her younger brother in Karamtoli area,” said Singh.

He added that the girl was reported escaping her academic exams in June this year and had tried to commit suicide two months ago also by consuming phenyl.

However, the police have ruled out the case as murder or a suicide out of failed love affair, initially. Singh said that no one has lodged any complaint against anyone so far and the police are investigating the matter as suicide only.

“She was rushed to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) Hospital at the time she consumed phenyl a month ago, but family members hid this facts from doctors so that it doesn’t become a police case. Doctors must have found something unwanted in her blood samples that time but could have taken the case as food poisoning or something else, but it was not reported to us at that time. Everyone in the family claims that she was suffering with at least some reasons of emotional turbulence which is yet to be investigated,” said Singh who added that the police were waiting for the post mortem report