Balia Deputy Superintnedent of Police Mohammed Qasim said that the girl, identified as Sonam Kumari, an intermediate student of a local college, was eve-teased by five boys of the village on January 13 while returning home after collecting flour from a wheat grinding mill.

Surendra Singh, the father of the victim, placed the matter before the gram panchayat the following day which could not take any decision against the accused. Instead, parents of the accused charged the girl with having "loose character".

Sonam, a meritorious student, who won several medals in various sporting events at district level, could not bear the ignominy and committed suicide, the the DySP said.