CHITRAL: Chitral police have arrested a man from Harchin village here who has been nominated in the suicide case of a second-year girl. The girl studying in a private college ended her life by eating poisonous substance on Friday morning.

Chitral police spokesman Inspector Buzurgud Din told Dawn the accused had allegedly attacked the girl a year ago while she was coming to college after which a case had been registered against him.

The villagers said the case was being heard in the court but the girl ended her life apparently due to frustration over delay in dispensation of justice to her.

They said she was an orphan as her father had died many years ago while she was a child and had no support to defend her in the court.

The accused was peon at government high school, Harchin, when he attacked the girl last year, after which he was transferred to district education office, Chitral.

The accused was booked under section 322 of PPC for causing the death of the girl while he was already facing charges of assaulting her under sections 324 and 506 of the same law.

Published in Dawn, August 7th, 2016