Schoolgirl takes life to escape teasing tirade
Staff Correspondent, Khulna
A schoolgirl allegedly committed suicide to escape the trauma due to persistent sexual harassment and a recent death threat by a local punk at Lalitadaha under Kotwali Thana in Jessore on September 25.The victim, Tara Khatoon, a class eight student of Abdul Bari High School, ended her life by taking poison, police said. In a case filed with Kotwali Police Station accusing a local hoodlum, Omar Ali, 23, Tara's father Shafiur Rahman alleged that the accused used to tease his daughter on her way to and from school because she refused to elope with him. Earlier on the day of the suicide, Omar had threatened to kill both the father and daughter if Tara didn't agree to his proposal, said the first information report of the case. Omar Ali has gone into hiding.
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