Class 5 girl dies while imitating suicide scene on TV

In a shocking case, a minor girl allegedly ended her life while enacting a suicide scene from a teleserial that she was watching in Bengaluru's Bagalagunte police station limits on Sunday night.

According to Deccan Chronicle reports, the 11-year-old girl, Pooja, died after she hung herself to a wall hanger using a towel at her house in Mallasandra. She was a fifth standard student of a private school. Pooja was home alone when the incident took place. When police was confronted about the incident, they said Pooja who had gone to the shop with her mother and younger brother, but later returned home for dinner. She went to a nearby shop to buy curd at around 7:00 pm and returned home.

One of her neighbours allegedly claimed Pooja was alive around 8:00 pm and was watching a serial. However, when her parents returned home around 9:30 pm, they found Pooja hanging to a wall hanger. The couple got Pooja down and rushed her to a nearby hospital where the doctors declared her brought dead. The police rushed to the spot examined the house and said that preliminary investigation revealed no foul play in her death, media reports further state.

Police further suspect that Pooja was trying to enact a suicide scene and ended her life. The Bagalgunte police have taken up a case and are investigating.