The police in a press release mentioned that the minor woman was discovered hanging on Monday (Representational)
Guwahati:
After sending a message to a pal that she had been subjected to sexual assault, a 14-year-old woman allegedly killed herself in the home of a school instructor in Assam’s Chirang district, police mentioned on Tuesday.
The assistant professor of a school in Bengtol, at whose home she had been staying for round a yr for the aim of learning, was arrested on the cost of rape and abetment to suicide.
The police in a press release mentioned that the minor woman was discovered hanging on Monday however the matter was not knowledgeable to the authorities.
The instructor and her relations had been making an attempt to carry out her final rites when the police, after getting a tip- off from somebody, reached the spot and stopped them. The physique was despatched for autopsy examination.
Through the investigation, it was discovered that the woman had despatched a message by a social networking platform to a pal saying she didn’t need to stay anymore as she had been subjected to sexual assault, the assertion mentioned.
The accused who was additionally booked for inflicting disappearance of proof and underneath the Safety of Kids from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, was remanded to a few days’ police custody by a neighborhood courtroom.
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