BHUBANESWAR: A 14-year-old girl, who had eloped with her lover, allegedly died by suicide by hanging in Odisha’s Angul on Saturday morning, a day after the man also took his own life following a police case filed by the teenager’s family, officials said.“The girl’s body was found hanging inside the bathroom of a women’s counselling centre, where she was temporarily lodged,” an official of the Angul Town police station said.According to police, the girl had eloped with a 21-year-old man on April 1, after which the duo fled to Pune.About a week later, on April 8, the girl’s father filed a complaint at the Angul Sadar police station, following which a kidnapping case was registered against the man, the investigating officer said.After learning about the FIR, the duo returned to the man’s home in Dhenkanal district on Friday, the officer said.Distressed over the case, the man allegedly died by suicide by hanging the same day, police added. The girl was subsequently lodged at a women’s counselling centre in Angul town.On Saturday, she was found hanging inside the centre, the official said.Police have registered cases in both deaths, and investigations are currently underway.(With agency inputs)
