Differently-abled woman in Punjab live-streams suicide attempt on Facebook, critical

Alleging police inaction, a 25-year-old physically challenged woman attempted suicide by consuming some poisonous substance at her house in Punjab’s Batala on Thursday.

She was live-streaming her suicide attempt on the social networking site Facebook, which alerted her friends and they took her to civil hospital, where her condition was stated to be critical. According to the information, around 2 months ago, the victim had filed a police complaint, alleging that a youth, Amandeep Singh of Chabal village, who is a fitness trainer at a gym in Batala, sexually exploited her on the pretext of marriage.

“Amandeep also stayed at my house after performing shagun ceremony at a religious place but when I asked him to marry me, he started avoiding me first and then refused outrightly. When I approached his family, they threatened me of dire consequences,” she had alleged.