Meerut, July 19 -- A 16-year-old girl from the Harthala area under the Civil Lines police station in Moradabad hung herself after being denied access to a mobile phone to watch social media reels.

According to the police, the teenager requested her father's phone around 11 am on Friday morning. However, her father refused her and scolded her for watching reels constantly. Disheartened by the rebuke, the girl locked herself inside a room.

At the time, the girl's father, a factory worker, was preparing to take his ailing wife to Agwanpur for medical treatment. Leaving the two daughters at home, the couple left, unaware of the storm brewing inside their teenage daughter's mind.

Sometime later, the younger girl returned home and found the ...