PRAYAGRAJ, June 13 -- A student preparing for competitive examinations committed suicide by hanging herself in Govindpur area under Shivkuti police station here on Thursday. The girl took the extreme step allegedly after being duped of Rs.71,000 by cyber fraudsters.

On receiving information, police reached the spot and sent the body for postmortem.

As per reports, the 20-year-old girl hanged herself with a dupatta from the fan in her room on Thursday. The cousin of the deceased, a government employee, said that she was preparing for competitive examinations and she had talked to her mother on the phone the same day and informed her that she had become a victim of cyber fraud, and had been duped of Rs.71,000.

She had further informed he...