<p class="title">An 11-year-old girl was found hanging from the cloth hanger at home in Mallasandra in Bagalgunte on Monday night.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pooja was last seen watching television and her family later found her hanging body. Police suspect that Pooja tried to recreate a suicide seen in a tele serial and ended up hanging herself.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Her death came to light when Pooja’s mother Sharadha checked on her at 9 pm. Pooja’s seven-year-old brother Namith Gowda was helping their parents prepare ‘Gobi Manchurian’ at the restaurant the family runs outside their home in Mallasandra.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Quoting the parents, a senior police official said Pooja was an active and sharp girl who did not have depression or suicidal tendencies. Pooja, a Class 5 student, was fond of watching television for long hours, as it was the summer holidays. She liked watching teleserials, a police officer said quoting her parents.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Her parents said Pooja bought curd from a nearby shop at 7 pm and began watching television after finishing dinner. When Sharadha came to check on her at 9 pm, she found Pooja hanging from a cloth holder fixed to the wall. She was hanging on a towel.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The towel had strangled her neck and Pooja’s legs were just brushing the floor, police said. She was rushed to a nearby hospital but was declared brought dead. The doctor confirmed it as a case of hanging with the ligature marks on her neck.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A police official added that the girl’s body bore no other injuries and there was no circumstantial evidence to suggest foul play.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Bagalgunte police have taken up a case of unnatural death and are awaiting postmortem report to probe the case further. </p>
<p class="title">An 11-year-old girl was found hanging from the cloth hanger at home in Mallasandra in Bagalgunte on Monday night.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pooja was last seen watching television and her family later found her hanging body. Police suspect that Pooja tried to recreate a suicide seen in a tele serial and ended up hanging herself.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Her death came to light when Pooja’s mother Sharadha checked on her at 9 pm. Pooja’s seven-year-old brother Namith Gowda was helping their parents prepare ‘Gobi Manchurian’ at the restaurant the family runs outside their home in Mallasandra.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Quoting the parents, a senior police official said Pooja was an active and sharp girl who did not have depression or suicidal tendencies. Pooja, a Class 5 student, was fond of watching television for long hours, as it was the summer holidays. She liked watching teleserials, a police officer said quoting her parents.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Her parents said Pooja bought curd from a nearby shop at 7 pm and began watching television after finishing dinner. When Sharadha came to check on her at 9 pm, she found Pooja hanging from a cloth holder fixed to the wall. She was hanging on a towel.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The towel had strangled her neck and Pooja’s legs were just brushing the floor, police said. She was rushed to a nearby hospital but was declared brought dead. The doctor confirmed it as a case of hanging with the ligature marks on her neck.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A police official added that the girl’s body bore no other injuries and there was no circumstantial evidence to suggest foul play.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Bagalgunte police have taken up a case of unnatural death and are awaiting postmortem report to probe the case further. </p>
