Odisha minor girl committed suicide over obscene pics on Facebook

A minor girl in Odisha's Cuttack district committed suicide after her obscene pictures were circulated on a social networking site, police said on Friday.

A man in the 15-year-old girl's village had secretly clicked some photographs of the girl while she was taking a bath in the backyard of her house and blackmailed her into having a physical relationship him.

Later, he took pictures of their intimate moments which he then circulated among his friends and posted on Facebook as well.

When the girl's father came to know about it, he brought the matter before the village committee. The committee asked the 18-year-old man to marry the girl, but he refused.

Unable to face humiliation and social stigma, the girl committed suicide by consuming poison.

"We have registered a case of unnatural death on the basis of a complaint by the girl's father. We are searching for the youth who is absconding," said Nemala police station officer Jayashree Ojha.

The girl had recently appeared for her Class 10 examination while the man is a second year student at a local college.

Indian Boy Commit Suicide On Facebook Live on Webcam

Facebook means friends, love and fun for school kids, but for a 16-year-old girl, the website has become a horror she would not want to revisit all her life.

On Saturday night, the teenager watched in shock as an alleged video chat on the site triggered her 22-year-old boyfriend to tie a rope to the ceiling of his room and hang himself.

The youth, Ankit Srivastava, decided to take the extreme step in front of his webcam and made the girl watch it live on her computer. Ankit's father Abhay Srivastava has lodged a complaint against the girl, accusing her of forcing his son to commit suicide. Ankit's body was found hanging in his house in Vinayaka area of Bhelupur, Varanasi, on Saturday midnight.