Parted from cellphone, girl kills self

MALDA, 10 JAN: Mani-sha Singh, a student of (15) Shyamsukhi Girls’ School committed  suicide by hanging herself at Shankarpur under Gaz-ole police station last evening after her father took away her cellphone, police said. Manisha’s father, Mr Manik Singh asked her not to ignore her studies wasting time over the phone and took away the cellphone. She was supposed to appear for the Madhyamik examination this year. Mr Manik Singh had noticed that she spent a lot of time talking over the phone, so he asked her to hand over her phone until her board examinations are over. According to police, Manisha recently got romantically involved with a local boy. Today she wanted to attend a function at her school. Her parents, both health workers, did not permit her and had left for work. When Mr and Mrs Singh came back home they found Manisha talking over her cellphone. She got a bad bashing and was asked not to use her cellphone. Later, Manisha was found hanging in her bedroom. SNS