Crime

Girl Hangs Self At Teacher’s Home After He Sexually Assaults Her In Assam

Mumbai: A 14-year-old girl allegedly killed herself in the house of a teacher in Assam’s Chirang district after he sexually assaulted her.

An assistant professor at a college in Bengtol, at whose house she had been staying at for a year to study, was arrested on charges of rape and abetment to suicide.

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The police said in a statement that the minor girl was hanged on Monday but the information of the case was not given to the authorities.

The teacher and her family members were trying to cremate her when police reached the spot after getting information from someone and stopped them. The body has been sent for postmortem.

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The statement said that during the investigation it was found that the girl had sent a message through a social networking platform to a friend that she did not want to live anymore as she was sexually assaulted.

The accused who was also booked for causing the disappearance of evidence and under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, was remanded to three days’ police custody by a local court.

(With PTI Inputs)

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