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A 16-year-old miss died nether suspicious circumstances successful eastbound Delhi's Geeta Colony area, prompting constabulary to analyse allegations of intersexual battle and forced acerb ingestion, an authoritative said connected Sunday (February 8, 2026).
According to the police, the statements fixed by the girl’s parent are besides contradictory and are being probed.
On July 3, the girl, a nonmigratory of Geeta Colony, was joined to a 22-year-old antheral from Rampur successful Uttar Pradesh successful the beingness of members of some families, they said.
"The 2 families are distant relatives. On October 29, past year, a medico-legal lawsuit (MLC) was received astatine the Geeta Colony constabulary presumption from Maulana Azad Hospital, Delhi, astir the girl. The MLC mentioned acerb ingestion and did not grounds immoderate past of assault," a constabulary serviceman said.
At the time, the miss and her parent had told doctors and constabulary that she had consumed acerb connected her ain aft an statement with her husband, helium said.
"However, connected January 23, the girl's parent lodged a caller ailment astatine Geeta Colony constabulary station, alleging that her girl had been sexually assaulted by her hubby and was forced to devour acerb connected October 29," the serviceman added.
In presumption of the property of the miss astatine the clip of marriage, constabulary registered FIR connected January 23, nether Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 65 (rape) and 351(2) (criminal intimidation) and Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act astatine Geeta Colony constabulary station, officials said.
The unfortunate aboriginal gave a contradictory mentation regarding the ingestion of acerb during her connection earlier a magistrate. Based connected her statement, due sections of instrumentality were invoked, and the substance was probed from each angles, they added.
"In the alleged incidental of acerb ingestion, the miss was not admitted to immoderate infirmary for a prolonged period. Instead, she remained astatine her parental home. On February 7, her begetter took her to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) Hospital successful an exigency condition, wherever doctors declared her dead," the constabulary serviceman said.
He further said that an autopsy was conducted connected Sunday (February 8) astatine the hospital, but the surgeon conducting the post-mortem could not get astatine a definitive sentiment regarding the origin of death, citing the sizeable clip spread and the agelong duration since the alleged acerb ingestion.
Police said the last sentiment volition beryllium fixed aft receiving the results of histopathological introspection and chemic investigation from the forensic laboratory. Further enactment arsenic deemed acceptable volition beryllium taken aft receipt of the adept reports, the serviceman said.
The lawsuit is being intimately monitored, and each aspects, including the allegations of intersexual assault, the circumstances of acerb ingestion, aesculapian past and statements of witnesses, are being examined, constabulary said.
