Mystery shrouds the motive behind the death by hanging of a 17 year old tribal girl at Chiyanki whose body was found hanging from the Palash tree while her slippers were there early morning of the Republic Day.
The deceased girl had slept in the house of her sister's neighbour as her sister had gone to the post death rites of her father in law and her husband a CRPF jawan too was not at their house since this deceased girl was living with her sister and brother in law following her father being a two time widower.
Officer in charge of the Sadar police station Gautam Kumar said the death was by hanging but the motive or immediate cause behind this extreme act is yet to be found out.
There is no suicidal note nor the deceased had any cell phone of her whose call details could have been scrutinised.
As this girl was post mortemed in the MMCH Daltonganj, hospital sources said she had 3 months of foetus, samples of which have been preserved for future reference.
Police officer Gautam Kumar said she was a kind of introvert and had limited life since her father had two women, both dead and a widower he was, this young girl lived with her married sister and her husband. This girl was from the first woman that her father had married.
The police are trying to find out exactly what happened on the night that the very next morning she took this extreme step of ending her life in such a manner.
Assistant superintendent of police cum sub divisional police officer Rishabha Garg on being contacted today said police will be investigating this case in all seriousness.
Garg said at first sight it looks like death by hanging but police want to find out if there is any abatement or incitement to commit death by hanging from any side.
When told that hospital sources indicated that the deceased had a few months foetus to which Garg said this has come to the notice of the police which makes police further ascertain if she had any bout of mental distress or depression on account of what if she becomes an unwed mother.
Officer in charge Gautam Kumar said police have lodged the case under unnatural death category.
The last rites of the girl were performed at her father's house under the Satbarwa police station.