BHUBANESWAR (Web Desk) – A 15-year-old Indian girl on Friday committed suicide after her obscene pictures were circulated on a social networking site, police said.
According to Hindustan Times, a boy in the girl’s village had secretly taken some photographs of the girl while she was taking bath and blackmailed her into having a physical relationship him.
Later, he took pictures of their intimate moments which he then circulated among his friends and posted on Facebook as well.
When the girl’s father came to know about it, he brought the matter to the attention of a village committee which asked the 18-year-old boy to marry the girl, but he refused.
Unable to face humiliation and social stigma, the girl committed suicide by consuming poison.
“We have registered a case of unnatural death on the basis of a complaint by the girl’s father. We are searching for the youth who is absconding,” said a police officer, Jayashree Ojha.
The girl had recently appeared for her Class 10 examination while the boy is a second year student at a local college.
Taking suo motu cognizance, the crime branch (CB) of police had recently registered at least five cases after sex videos from across the state were uploaded on social networking sites.
In February, Indian apex court had ordered the CBI to investigate those videos from different states, which were brought to limelight by Hyderabad-based NGO Prajwala, and the Odisha property dealer was the first person to be arrested by the central investigating agency.
