A 19-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide by setting herself on fire on Friday over police inaction against her tormentors who had uploaded her morphed photos on a fake Facebook account they created after hacking her account.

The girl was found dead in her Chandralok Chowk Railway Colony house under the jurisdiction of Kazi Mohammadpur police station in Muzaffarpur when the family members returned in the afternoon.

The girl was alone in the room and her charred body was lying on the floor.

The girl’s father had gone to office and his wife was in Patna with another daughter. Her elder sister had also gone to give tuition to students at a college. “When I returned home, I found the room locked from inside. The neighbours broke open the door only to find my sister’s burnt body,” she said.

She immediately called her mother on her cellphone. The police also rushed to the spot after getting information from the girl’s neighbours. A forensic team collected samples from the room and sent the body to the Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) for a post-mortem.

No suicide note was found in the room.

The girl’s father told some local reporters that his daughter was upset after her Facebook account was hacked into and morphed photos were uploaded. He said she was shocked over the incident and had gone to the Kazi Mohammadpur police station on September 29 seeking action against her tormentors.

The hapless father lamented that the police didn’t act on the complaint. The girl’s body was handed over to the family after a post-mortem. Some liquid (suspected to be kerosene) was found in a bottle in the girl’s room.

The station house officer (SHO) of Kazi Mohammadpur police station, Arun Kumar Mandal, however, denied that the girl had approached the police for action against her tormentors.

“No written complaint was ever submitted to the police station,” the SHO told The Telegraph over phone.

Muzaffarpur senior superintendent of police (SSP) Manoj Kumar said: “I have ordered an investigation into the matter. Disciplinary action will be initiated against the station house officer if the allegations are found to be true.”

The senior superintendent of police said, prima facie, insensitivity by local police officials has come to the fore. “The report is awaited,” he told this newspaper.

The event has reminded people of an incident of a college girl in Sitamarhi, who had committed suicide after her repeated requests to police officials, right from the police station to the superintendent of police fell on deaf ears.

The college girl, who was tortured by a youth on her way to her college, had narrated her ordeal in her suicide note written in Hindi.