Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh),(IANS) In a shocking incident, a ten-year-old girl ended her life by jumping in front of a train running at Chakeri after a fight with her sister. The girl’s grandmother, who lives in Unnao, died on hearing about the incident.
According to the girl’s father Santosh Chaurasia, who owns a grocery shop, his wife Kunti and youngest daughter Anjali had gone to Unnao to visit their ailing mother-in-law. His daughter Divyanshi, 10, had gone to attend a neighborhood ‘bhandara’ (community festival).
When Divyanshi returned, her elder sister Bhavya scolded her for returning late. Later, there was a quarrel between the two on this issue. After returning from work at night, when Santosh was having dinner, Divyanshi left the house in anger.
The elder daughter followed him for some distance and asked him to come back home but he refused and walked ahead. However the elder daughter returned home and informed her father. Chaurasia went to look for Divyanshi and when he reached the railway track, he saw her dead body.
Shyam Nagar police station in-charge Dharmendra Kumar said, “There was a fight between the sisters, after which the younger sister took an extreme step and committed suicide. After receiving information about the death of the granddaughter, her grandmother Gomti Chaurasia also died hours later. “