Behrampore, Feb. 16: A young mother of two in Murshidabad hanged herself today apparently after a villager showed her nine-year-old daughter a morphed nude picture of the woman.

Residents of Domkal’s Bagdanga village said the picture had been circulated through an MMS in the area a few days ago and the 28-year-old woman knew about it. “It had been doing the rounds,” a neighbour said.

“This morning, a villager called her daughter when she was going for tuitions and showed her the MMS. The little girl ran home crying and told her mother about it. An hour later, she found her mother hanging from the ceiling fan in another room,” said Furkan Sheikh, a neighbour.

“The woman knew about the MMS. But the situation became unbearable when her daughter told her about the picture. I think she was overcome with shame,” Furkan added.

The girl informed the neighbours. “The woman’s husband was not at home. Only the girl, her two-and-a-half-year-old brother and their mother were at home,” another neighbour said.

Police said preliminary investigations had revealed that some local youths had clicked a picture of the woman when they came to buy cigarettes and provisions from her grocery shop.

“They then morphed the picture and circulated it through MMS. Those mentioned in the FIR lodged by her husband regularly go to the couple’s shop. The woman used to run the outlet most of the times,” an officer said.

The 35-year-old husband has mentioned the names of five local youths and a woman in the FIR. “The youths used to sit and chat in the woman’s house, a few yards from the house and shop of the mother who committed suicide,” the officer added.