Refused Toilet at Home, Class 12 Student Allegedly Commits Suicide

Mangalore Today News Network

Dumka, July 04, 2015:  A 17-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide in Jharkhand’s Dumka district on Friday after her parents turned down her request to construct a toilet at their home.

 

The girl, a Class 12 student, had made multiple requests, but they were turned down as her parents wanted to save money for her marriage.

The teenager, ashamed to defecating in the open fields, took the extreme step when her parents were not at home.

"My daughter told me that I go have to travel so far for a toilet in this heat, so construct a toilet first," said her mother.

"For many days, she was asking for a toilet in their house. The mother told her that they are poor and the first priority is her marriage. After this everybody went back to their normal routine and this incident happened," said Vipul Shukla, Superintendent of Police, Dumka.

Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh tweeted this morning, "A girl in Jharkhand committed suicide as her parents refused to build toilet ! India as a Nation must wake up and build toilets on priority. (sic)"

 

Courtesy: NDTV