Class 12 student dies by suicide after online search for ‘what happens after death’, police begins probe

A 17-year-old girl in Maharashtra's Nagpur city allegedly committed suicide after searching online about "what happens after death", police said on Tuesday. The deceased, a Class 12 student of a private school and the only child of a regional director at the RBI in Nagpur, frequently searched for information about death and foreign cultures, they said.

She allegedly first slashed her wrist, making cross marks with a 'stone blade knife' which she had apparently ordered online, and then slit her throat to end her life, the police said. Her mother, a homemaker, found her lying in a pool of blood in her bedroom at their home in Chhatrapati Nagar area at around 5.45 am on Monday and raised an alarm, the police said.