A school girl has reportedly committed suicide as her mother stopped her from watching an Indian daily soap opera at Badda Moholla in Savar on Thursday night.
The deceased is Ria Akhter, 15, daughter of Mahbubur Rahman of Tarail area in Kishorganj and a class X student.
Family members said Ria switched on the television channel to watch a daily soap opera of the India television channel Star Jalsha. But, her mother switched off the television asking her to study.
They said she tried to commit suicide by taking her father's medicines after having a quarrel with her mother over the soap opera.
Later, she was taken to a local hospital and later shifted to Savar Enam Medical College and Hospital where the duty doctor declared her dead on Friday morning.
Savar Model police station Officer-in-Charge Mostofa Kamal said: “We have sent the body to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.”
He said a case has been filed in connection to the incident.