Student ends life; kin claim cyber fraudsters duped her
PRAYAGRAJ, June 14 -- A student preparing for competitive examinations committed suicide by hanging herself in Govindpur area under Shivkuti police station 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 the 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 her mother that the cyber fraudster was blackmailing her and demanding another Rs 25,000, after which the mother explained to her that she should not be worried and file a complaint with the police.
But even after her mother's advice, the girl took the extreme step. SHO of Shivkuti police station Rukam Pal Singh said that no suicide note had been found from the room, while the police have seized the deceased's mobile and sent it for forensic investigation. No complaint has been received so far and hence no FIR has been registered. htc...
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