Patna: A 13-year-old girl from Jharkhand ended her life at a Hindu temple on Sunday, where she had been fasting and praying that the serious disease plaguing her since her birth be cured instantly.
The victim had been sitting on a fast-unto-death before some Hindu statues for the past week.
The incident took place at a temple located at Sinhpur village under Kasmar block in Bokaro district on Sunday.
According to a report in the local media, Laxmi Kumari, daughter of Mantu Mahato, had been suffering from epilepsy since her birth.
Her parents consulted various doctors but they failed to cure her.
Ultimately, the girl, who was in Grade Seven at a local middle school, went to a local temple dedicated to deity Shiva last week and sat on fast-unto-death in front of the statue.
Reports said she took the extreme step on being advised by local villagers.
However, she became frail due to not taking adequate food during her rigorous vow to ensure her well-being and eventually collapsed on Sunday.
She was consuming only fruits.
Last month in a similar incident, a teenaged girl from Bihar’s Kaimur district had ended her life by hanging from the temple bell after her boyfriend died in a fatal road accident. She chose the temple premises to end her life apparently to express her anguish.
