THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A nine-year-old girl was found hanging in her house. The dead is Ahalya, daughter of Shyam and Lekha of Shanthivila coming under the Nemom police station limits. The police conclude that her mother had scolded her Friday morning and that she may have committed suicide due to it.

Ahalya was a fourth-class student of Nemom Government UP School. Her father was taking his wife to the hospital as she was sick. Meanwhile, Ahalya fell down. Police said that her mother scolded and beat her. The police also said that they told her to sit inside safely as they were going to the hospital.

They left leaving her with her paternal aunt. After cooking food, her aunt called her for lunch, but she did not come. Later, when she looked through the window of the closed room, she found her hanging. The Nemom police, who reached the spot, have registered a case. The body has been shifted to the hospital after legal formalities and will be handed over to her relatives after the postmortem.