Patna, Feb. 8: “If children commit a mistake, parents are always there to advise them. But who can advise adults when they commit mistakes?”

This was the question a teenage girl, driven to take her own life, raised in her suicide note.

Around 10am, Pinki Kumari (16), slipped out of her Ashok Nagar residence under Kankerbagh police station and walked down 60metres to an underconstruction building, Yamuna Apartment, at RMS Colony.

When the guard accosted her at the gate, Pinki claimed to be a maid. With some of the flats already occupied, he let her in without any suspicion. Ten minutes later, Pinki jumped to her death from the 14th floor. Profusely bleeding, Pinki was being rushed to Patna Medical College and Hospital, where she was declared brought dead, the police said.

The police found a two-and-a-half page suicide note written in Hindi from the floor she jumped. Addressing it to her father, Ganesh Prasad Gupta, Pinki said she was fed up with him and her mother constantly fighting over trivial issues.

Pinki, the eldest among siblings, used to stay with her maternal grandmother at Jaipur in Arwal district and was a student of Class X at a government school there. Gupta is a driver, while his wife, Sashikanti, is a homemaker.

Pinki wrote that she and her siblings were suffering a lot because of frequent bickerings between Gupta and his wife. Moreover, her grandmother too scolded her all the time. “Father, please don’t mind mother’s harsh words. Please come home and take your meals properly. Say a complete no to drinking. When both of you fight, we children can do nothing but weep quietly.”

“Back home last month, Pinki was scheduled to leave for Arwal on February 20. Her matriculation examinations start on February 23,” Suraj, her brother, told The Telegraph.

Sujit Kumar, the station house officer of Kankerbagh police station, said: “It is a tragic incident. The body will be handed over to the family after post-mortem.”

Numbed with shock, Pinki’s father said: “What can I say? I have got nothing to say now” before walking towards the post-mortem room.