A 18-year-old woman, reported missing earlier this week, was found dead in a drain in the early hours of Sunday in the Aman Vihar area of Delhi’s Rohini, police said.
Delhi Police has confirmed that the victim was a 12th-grade student named Saraswati. The authorities recovered the body, which was subsequently sent to the Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital (SGM) in Delhi’s Mangolpuri area for a post-mortem. Once the post-mortem was completed, the victim’s remains were returned to her family.
“This is the third suicide incident reported from Delhi,” stated the officials.
Speaking to the media, Santosh Thakur, the uncle of the deceased, claimed that Saraswati had failed in two subjects in the recently announced results of the class 12 board exams and was upset.