& çâÌæÚUæð´ ·¤è ¥ôÚU Îð¹Ùæ ÁæÚUè ÚU¹ð´ ¥ÍæüÌ ¥ÂÙð ÜÿØ ÂÚU ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´Ð ãæÚU Ù ×æÙð´, €UØô´ç·¤ ·¤æ× ·¤ÚUÙð âð ¥æÂ·¤ô ©gðàØ ·¤è Âýæç# ãôÌè ãñ ¥õÚU ÁèßÙ ·¤æ ¹æÜèÂÙ ÎêÚU ãôÌæ ãñÐ ÖÜð ãè ÁèßÙ ×ð´ ç·¤ÌÙè Öè ·¤çÆÙæ§ü €UØô´ Ù ¥æ°, çÁ™ææâæ ¥õÚU ©ˆâæã ÕÙæ° ÚU¹ð´Ð ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´, ÜÿØ ã×ðàææ ¥æÂ·Ô¤ Âæâ ãôÌð ãñ´ çÁ‹ãð´ ÂæÙð ·Ô¤ çÜ° ÂýØæâ ¥æÂ ·¤Öè Öè àæéM¤ ·¤ÚU â·¤Ìð ãñ´Ð

Stalked, she takes her life

Staff Correspondent
Humiliated and physically assaulted by local youths, a 17-year-old girl took her life in the capital's East Jurain area early yesterday.
Babysitter Shuva Akhter hanged herself from the ceiling fan with a scarf around her neck about 10:00pm on Tuesday at a room of their house owner on the first floor of a two-storey building. Her family lives on the ground floor.
Asked why she had committed suicide there, Shuva's brother-in-law Li ton Mia said the power had failed at the time and everyone of the building was on the roof. The room was empty and perhaps that's why she chose the place.
He told The Daily Star that local youths Shaolin, Mithun, Al Amin, Masud and some others used to tease and stalk Shuva on her way to work.
On Tuesday around 9:00pm, Shaolin stopped Shuva on her way to a neighbour's house and asked her to spend some private time with him, said Li ton.
Refused, the youth hurled abusive language at her and beat her up in public. The harassment caused her to commit suicide, alleged Liton, adding that Shuva told her father Sohrab Bapari about the assault when she had returned home.
After that it seernd she took the scope of the power failure to lock herself in room and hang from the ceiling fan. Within a few minutes, the family members noticed her absence and got her out breaking into the room, said Liton.
They had rushed her to a local clinic and then shifted her to Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 1:30am on Wednesday, he added.
Shuva died at 4:45am, according to the death certificate.
Sources at Dhaka Medical College morgue said it was a suicide case, but they could not confirm what exactly
caused the delay to her death.
Meanwhile, the stalker youths beat up Shuva's father and issued him threats not to file any case when Sohrab came home for money after admitting Shuva to the hospital, said a relative preferring anonymity.
Shuva's father yesterday filed a case in connection with eve-teasing and instigating someone to commit suicide with Kadamtoli Police Station.
Sub-Inspector Motaleb Hossain of the police station said they had arrested Masud and were trying to nab rest of the youths.