Angered over scolding by her mother, a 13-year-old girl committed suicide by hanging with the ceiling at her residence located in Nariyalkheda under Gautam Nagar police station area on Thursday.
Police said that in the initial investigation, it was found that the deceased Sania Khan was scolded by her mother after which she took the extreme step.
The deceased used to spend too much time using mobile phone by playing games or chatting which used to disturb her studies and her parents used to instruct her to pay more attention towards her studies.
On Thursday, when Sania was using mobile phone her mother scolded her over using the mobile phone and to shut the mobile phone and study.
The incident took place at around 4pm on Thursday after Sania’s mother asked her help in some work but she remained busy with the mobile phone and not paid heed to her calls and infuriated over scolding by her mother she inside room and hanged herself.
After sometime when Sania’s mother called her but did not got any response she checked and found that the room was locked from inside and after failing to open the door she alerted the neighbours to help her and later Sania was rushed to a nearby hospital where she was declared dead.
Sania’s father Rafeeq runs a shop at Qazi Camp. The deceased was younger of the two daughters.
The police have registered a case under section 174 of the CrPC and have started further investigation.