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Haryana Girl Dies by Suicide; Police Deny Link to Slain Criminal
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News18•16-10-2026, 22:15
Haryana Girl Dies by Suicide; Police Deny Link to Slain Criminal
- •An 18-year-old girl allegedly died by suicide using a country-made pistol in Kharkhari village.
- •Social media rumours falsely linked her death to the police encounter of slain criminal Shahid alias Advani.
- •Police officially denied any connection between the girl and the criminal, whose native village is also Kharkhari.
- •The girl's father is currently lodged in jail in a criminal case, and no suicide note was recovered.
- •Shahid alias Advani had 70 criminal cases against him and was killed in a police encounter near Sohna.
Key Questions Answered
Rumours spread on social media claiming that an 18-year-old girl died by suicide after learning about a police encounter in which the criminal Shahid alias Advani was killed in Kharkhari village.
No, police explicitly denied any connection between the girl's death and the encounter involving Shahid, noting that a probe is currently underway.
Police stated that the 18-year-old girl died by suicide using a country-made pistol, her father is jailed in a criminal case, and no suicide note was recovered from the scene.
