In a major embarrassment for Haryana, two teenaged girls allegedly committed suicide after repeated stalking by a group of youths, in Rohtak district. The main accused who was named by one of the victims in her suicide note, was arrested on Tuesday, even as others are still at large.
Saurabh Singh, SSP, Rohtak said though the main accused lokesh (18), whose name was found in the said suicide note of the deceased girls has been arrested, yet in the preliminary investigation, we found that the accused met with an accident of his bike with the scooty of the deceased girls a fortnight ago. He said since then, he had started following both girls with his friends.
The teenage girls, Madhu and Nikita, students of Class XI and XII had succumbed to their injuries on the way to PGIMS Rohtak after both had fallen unconscious under mysterious circumstances at their Sakshi coaching centre located on Rohtak-Jind bypass on Monday.
Both deceased were residents of Anantpuram Society, near Jind bypass chowk of Rohtak and belong to middle class families. local police had recovered two hand-written suicide notes, one under the bench where Madhu used to sit while Nikita’s suicide note was recovered from the bag she was carrying, in which registration number of motorcycles and name of one accused was mentioned, which led the police to the accused.
“Yes, there were few descriptions like registration number of motorcycles etc which led us to culprit”, confirmed the police. The main accused lokesh was produced in the local court on Tuesday, where he was sent on three days police remand. Asked about other accomplices of the accused, the Rohtak SSP said investigations are on.
Family members of the deceased said this matter is not only related to hit and run as the police believes, rather it is clearly of harassing the innocent girls. “In their suicide note the girls had deliberately written that more girls will commit suicide if the incidents of harassing are not controlled and action is not taken against persons indulging in eve teasing”, said a close relative of the deceased Madhu.