Ranchi: Police on Friday exhumed the body of a 16-year-old tribal girl who had allegedly committed suicide in Varsha village under Thakurgoan police station on August 29. The relatives of the deceased girl had buried the body without informing the police.
Rural SP Naushad Alam said the minor girl, who studied in Gumla, had come to her maternal grandfather’s house in Varsha under Nagri police station during lockdown.The girl allegedly hanged herself after her relatives scolded her for dating a local youth.
The relatives rushed the body to her native village, Banapidhi, in the middle of night and buried it without informing the police.
Alam said, “The body was exhumed in the presence of a magistrate, the local mukhiya and the girl’s father. Police have registered a case at the Nagri police station against seven persons under Sections 306, 201 and 202 of the Indian Penal Code. All the accused persons are members of the girl’s family.”
The body has been sent to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences for autopsy to ascertain whether her death was a suicide or a murder.