Teen Girl Kills Self After Younger Brother Accidentally Breaks Her Smartphone

A 19-year-old girl hanged herself to death after her younger brother accidentally broke her smartphone.

The deceased teen, identified as Manisha Arya, a college student, was found hanging from the ceiling of her home in the Sabaura village of Khatima town of Uttarakhand, India, on Tuesday, Aug.10.

Manisha’s father, Ramesh Ram Arya said her daughter was doing a part-time job in the nearby paddy fields and had been saving up money to buy a smartphone for herself.

He said the girl had recently bought a phone and was happy to have got one finally.

However, on the day of the incident, Manisha’s younger brother was playing a video game on it when he accidentally dropped it onto the floor and reportedly broke it.

Manisha was devastated and at the same time very angry to find her phone broken. In a fit of rage, the teen dashed to her room and locked the doors from the inside. She was later found hanging from the ceiling.

Emergency responders were called to the home, who pronounced the girl dead at the scene.

The teen girl’s body was sent to a medical examiner’s office for an autopsy.

The police have registered a case and questioning the teen’s family members and neighbors to gain better insight into the matter. A further probe is underway, police said.

In another incident, a 17-year-old girl hanged herself to death after being allegedly "hounded" by a stalker for months. The incident happened on Sunday, Aug. 8, in Gurugram city, Haryana, India.

According to the girl’s father, the teen turned 17 on Saturday. But as she was fasting on that day she asked her family to celebrate her birthday a day later.

On Sunday morning, the girl told her mother to prepare special lunch and also invited her cousins to join the celebration.

Once the food was ready, the girl served it to her younger siblings and cousins. When her mother asked her to grab a plate for herself, the teen said she would eat later.

"She went upstairs, saying she would hang the clothes to dry. Everything seemed so normal. We had no inkling what was going on in her mind," the father said.

After a while, her younger sister went upstairs to check on her and found her hanging from the ceiling fan.

"She did not reply to repeated knocks on the door. My younger daughter stood on a chair and looked through the ventilator. She saw her hanging from the ceiling fan," the father said.

The teen’s family filed a police complaint alleging that a 23-year-old man called Rohit had been stalking their daughter for several months.

According to the complaint, the accused used to follow the teen and try talking to her. The family alleged the accused accosted her in a market and threatened to abduct her and harm her sisters if she did not talk to him.

A case under Section 306 (abetment to suicide) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against the accused.