Depressed? 12-year-old girl ends life by jumping from 29th floor

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: A 12-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the 29th floor balcony of a residential apartment on Begur Road in Hulimavi Police Station limits.

The police saidthe incident came to light around 5 am on Tuesday when the guard of the apartment complex heard some noise and rushed to the corridor.

Shocked at seeing the girl lying in a pool of blood, he immediately alerted the representatives of the apartment association.

The severely injured girl was rushd to a hospital where she was declared brought dead, the police added.

Following an investigation it was revealed that the girl was a student of Class 7 at a private school near Bannerghatta Road here.

The girl's father is a software engineer, who recently got into stocks trading while the mother is a homemaker. In her statements to the police, the mother said she saw her daughter outside her room around 4:30 am.

When asked why she was up so early, she gave a vague reply and went inside her room.

Chaos ensued outside the apartment around 5:10 am and the parents were horrified upon learning that their daughter had jumped from the balcony of their flat, the police further said.

The Hulimavu police conducted an inspection and found that the girl was depressed. However no suicide note was found in her room.

The police said that the post-mortem has been done and a probe is still on. The motive for the extreme step could not be ascertained so far.