17-year-old girl hangs self in Tamil Nadu’s Karur, Purported Suicide Note Alleges Sexual Harassment

In the indicated suicide note, the young lady composed she feared uncovering the personality of her supposed harasser.

A 17-year-old Class 12 understudy, who kicked the bucket by suicide in Tamil Nadu's Karur region the evening of Friday, 19 November, has claimed in her supposed suicide note that she was physically pestered. The police recovered an implied suicide note from the perished young lady's home.

As indicated by police, the minor young lady, who was learning at a non-public school, had gone to classes on Friday and got back, where she is said to have been separated from everyone else. As she was not seen outside for quite a while, an old lady from the neighboring house came searching for the young lady. As the young lady didn't answer the entryway after the old lady called her multiple times, she called the minor young lady's mom, said the police.

This is the second instance of a minor's passing by suicide identified with sexual maltreatment charges that has risen up out of Tamil Nadu in under about fourteen days.

A 17-year-old young lady who was contemplating has Chinmaya Vidyalaya Hospital in Coimbatore passed on by suicide on 11 November, and had asserted she was physically mishandled by a teacher. The police have captured the denounced educator, 31-year-old Mithun Chakravarthy, and the school head for supposedly being familiar with the rape and not following up on the young lady's grievance.

In the Karur occurrence, the police enrolled a case on Friday and sent the body for post-mortem examination to Karur Government Medical College and Hospital. What's more, through the examination, the police observed the supposed suicide note. In the note, the young lady additionally purportedly composed that she feared uncovering the personality of the individual (her supposed harasser) who had "pushed" her "to take this choice."

Addressing TNM, Karur Superintendent of Police P Sundaravadivel said, "We have enrolled a case and started the examination. The group of the expired didn't put any claim. The perished young lady has additionally not referenced anybody's name in the suicide note. We are directing an examination concerning every single imaginable point."

The body has been given over to the family after examination on Saturday.

(If you feel suicidal or know someone in distress, please reach out to them with kindness and call these Numbers of local emergency services, helplines, and mental health NGOs.)