Police arrested the accused!
Telangana Police arrested the father of a 16-year-old girl who killed herself after alleging that she was being physically harassed by him.
The incident took place in Nandigama village in Telangana’s Rangareddy district.
A report by The Times of India stated that she committed suicide by hanging herself when no one was there at home. Her father, who was arrested by the police, is a land labourer.
Shadnagar Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Kushalkar, said, “Before his wife’s death, the accused was harassing her and used to hit both their children. She died of an illness a year ago.
After his wife’s death, the accused began torturing his children. His eldest child, a son, moved to the city to work in a shop and began staying there to avoid his father's torture.”
The deceased girl left a suicide note stating that she ended her life due to her father’s torture, reported The Times of India.
“We have registered an abetment of suicide case and arrested the accused,” said the ACP.
The ministry of women and child development shared the data in response to a question from CPI (M) lawmaker Jharna Das Baidya in the Rajya Sabha. Baidya sought to know about data on crimes against women from last year.
The data shows that in 2020, 398,620 persons were arrested in connection with crimes against women, 488,143 were charge-sheeted, and 31,402 were convicted.
Also, instances of crimes against women in the cities went down by 8.3% in 2020 over the previous year.
Crimes against women include cases of rape, outraging modesty, dowry deaths, harassment, acid attacks, and kidnappings.
Among states and Union territories, Uttar Pradesh saw the highest number of such cases, with 49,385, followed by West Bengal (36,439), Rajasthan (34,535), Maharashtra (31,954) and Madhya Pradesh (25,640).
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