Mumbai: A teenage Mumbai girl allegedly committed suicide in Mumbai on Tuesday after being stalked on social networking site Facebook for days. The family of the girl blamed the police for their daughter's death, accusing the police of failing to take any action against the stalker despite their repeated complaint.

The police has now taken action and identified the stalker. The stalker has been detained for questioning.

The girl's family alleged that the boy had posted offensive content on the Facebook account of the deceased. The content was so offensive that it prompted the Class 9 student from Kandivli in Mumbai's outskirts to commit suicide by hanging herself in her bedroom last evening.

The girl's mother said that the deceased was studying in her bedroom and she knocked at her door a t 6 pm but the door did not open. She then asked her husband to broke open the door. When the door opened, the girl's parent saw her hanging. "We have sent the body for a post-mortem," said H Pimple, senior police inspector of Kandivli police station.

The girl's father said that the stalker is a 16-year-old boy, who was posting obscene messages on the Facebook account of the girl for the past few days. The girl's father added that he gone to the local police station to file a complaint, but the police seemed dis interested in taking any action.

"We have identified the boy and will question him. We are also examining the girl's social networking account to substantiate the claims of the girl's father. We are also probing whether the negligence of police officials led to the father and the girl returning without lodging a complaint. We have registered a case of unnatural death," the police officer said.