Kolkata: In a sensational incident, a class XII girl from South 24-Parganas's Sonarpur went live on a social networking site and showed the way she committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan at her house.
The victim, Mousumi Mistri was a student of Sonarpur Kamrabad School. The incident took place in Baidyapara area of Sonarpur. The incident triggered tension in the area. Police on Monday morning recovered the body from the house and sent the body for postmortem.
According to police, the victim had an affair with a local youth for quite some time.
Police came to know in the course of the investigation that the victim on Sunday afternoon received a phone call from one of her friends and left the house. She told her mother that she would return home by 5 pm.
Though, she returned home at around 6 pm. After returning, she did not talk much. Her mother, Shampa Mistri who works as an Ayah left the house a little after 6 pm. Later, she went to attend a cultural programme that going on in the locality and returned home at around 9.30 pm. After having her dinner, the girl went to her sleep in her room and closed the door. The victim's father and younger brother live somewhere else and the victim used to live with her mother.
As the girl did not open the door till 8.30 am on Monday morning despite her mother's repeated knocks on the door, she informed locals, who broke a portion of the window to see the victim hanging from the ceiling fan.
The girl generally got up within 8 am. After being informed, police reached the spot and recovered the body. Police said before committing suicide she spoke to her boyfriend through video chat on a social networking app. Police have started a detailed probe into the incident. They are yet to ascertain the exact cause.