On Thursday, 29th August Maharashtra Police filed a complaint against 10 persons after a 15-year-old minor girl committed suicide in Nashik district. The girl notably decided to end her life after being stalked and threatened by a 22-year-old man identified as Kalam Izhar Mansuri. As per the reports, the family members of the man also threatened the girl after which she decided to end her life by consuming poison.
Team OpIndia has obtained the FIR copy of the incident. The other accused persons booked in the case based on the complaint by the parents of the girl are Nana Khala (Kalam’s mother), Jahangir Sheikh, Bablu Sheikh, Munna Sheikh, Laden Mansuri, Sameer Bablu Sheikh, Nadda Mansuri Sheikh, Anjum Sayyed and Sahil Sayyed. The accused persons have been booked under sections 107, 351 (2), 3 (5), and 78 of the Bharatiya Nyay Samhita, 2023, and section 12 of the POCSO Act, 2012.
As mentioned in the FIR, the victim girl was being harassed by the primary accused Kalam since the year 2022. The girl was in the school at that time. The accused used to block the girl’s way from home to school or vice-versa and say that he liked her. He at times has also forced the girl to talk to him and take his phone number for communication. However, the girl told this at home the very first time it happened. After this, the parents of the girl began taking extra care of her. They also talked to the parents of the accused and told them that they would not want their daughter to go through any trouble. However, the accused continued to stalk and harass the victim.
Due to the harassment, the girl was forced to take her 10th board exams from home. Eventually, the girl was admitted to an Arts College in the Devlali area of Nashik. On 23rd August, the girl failed to return home at her regular hour of 12:15 pm. After an hour or so, the mother of the girl got a call saying that her daughter was found unconscious on the road near a bridge. The call was from accused Anjum and Sahil Sayyed.
The duo called the mother and said that they found the girl unconscious on the road and were taking her to the Bitco Hospital. They also asked the woman to reach the hospital as early as possible. However, the two accused had fled by the time the mother reached the hospital. The girl, as per the FIR, also told her mother that she was feeling scared.
“Doctors checked her and gave her medicine. But on our way home, my daughter started vomiting and feeling unconscious. At that time she told me that she was being harassed by Kalam and his family. She told me that Kalam used to force her to marry him and threaten her. His mother had also been threatening my daughter to marry his son. She also mentioned the names of Jahangir, Bablu, Munna, Laden, Samir, and Nadda who used to force her to marry Kalam,” the mother of the girl said in the FIR.
The girl was declared dead on the same day. However, on 25th August, the family of the girl checked the CCTV footage close to Anjum Sayyed’s house. In the CCTV footage, the family saw that Anjum and Sahil took the girl on their scooter to the hospital. However, they claimed that they had found the girl unconscious on the road near the bridge, after which they took her to the hospital. On suspicion, the girl’s parents have also booked the two.
As per exclusive information obtained by Opndia, the parents of the girl believe that the girl has been poisoned by the accused and his relatives and then was admitted to the hospital by Sahil and Anjum Sayyed. The duo carrying a covered-up, and unmoving person, allegedly the victim, on a two-wheeler can be seen in the CCTV footage shared with OpIndia. The police failed to confirm anything over the phone in the case given its sensitivity. However, OpIndia obtained FIR copies and CCTV footage.
Location: #Nashik
— Siddhi (@sidis28) August 30, 2024
23/08/2024
15 yo girl commits suicide after harassed by Kalam Mansuri and his family for the past 2 years.
Family suspects murder as CCTV shows girl taken on bike by other accused Anjum, Sahil Sayyed.
Probe underway. Report out soon.
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On 19 August, another minor girl had committed suicide after facing harassment by one Kasim Pathan
It is important to note that this is the second such case reported from Maharashtra within 10 days. On 19th August, a 16-year-old girl had committed suicide 8 months after facing harassment at the hands of one individual identified as Kasim Yasin Pathan. The girl was believed to have jumped into a well ending her life in Aher village of Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district.
लव्ह जिहाद साठी यासीन पठाण च्या त्रासाला कंटाळून हिंदू तरुणी पूजा पवार हिने आत्महत्या केली.
— Ram Satpute (@RamVSatpute) August 19, 2024
मतांसाठी तुष्टीकरण करणारे महाविकास आघाडीवाले यावर बोलणार का ?
हिंदुनो जागे व्हा ..
कडक कारवाई व्हावी . @CSNRuralPolice #LoveJihad pic.twitter.com/SXFGCWiglq
The victim minor studied in 11th from the science stream whereas the accused worked as a mechanic in a local garage. The girl was staying in the city as she had been admitted to a private coaching center for her studies. However, she recently went to her village for the Rakshabandhan festival.
The accused as per the initial information liked the girl and forced her to accept his advances. He, in the past eight months, had threatened the girl saying that he would kill her brother if she failed to accept his love advances. The girl tried to avoid the accused in all the ways possible but to no avail. On 18th August she committed suicide forcing her relatives to demand the strictest punishment against the accused.
