New Delhi: A maid in a northern Indian parish hanged herself at a church center over a disappointment in love but her family is now trying to portray it as homicide, according to the local parish priest.
Nineteen-year-old Maya took the tragic step in her room in the Navjeevan (New Life) Don Bosco center in Chandigarh on July 23.
Parish priest Father Sebastian Vadakkethannickal, said that the girl’s parents are now trying to paint the case as a homicide “but they will be sorry once the legal process starts.”
A police officer dealing with the case said that initial investigations have revealed that the girl had an affair with Anoop Sebastian, 20, son of the parish priest’s niece.
The boy’s mother, Mercy Sebastian, opposed the relationship and threatened the girl with “dire consequences” if she continued the affair, the officer said.
The victim narrated the incident to her sister who stayed with her at the church center.
Police have now registered “a case of abetting suicide against Mercy Sebastian,” Father Vadakkethannickal said, adding that an autopsy had confirmed the incident as suicide due to hanging.
He said that there is “no merit in the case” against his relatives and that “there is nothing” for the parish to worry about.
“We will follow the course of law. We know what to do,” he said.
The priest discovered the body of the victim in her room on the first floor of the building.
The boy also lived in the parish house, media reports said, quoting Manju Devi, a maternal aunt of the victim.
Courtesy: UCAN
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