HISAR: A dalit man committed suicide after his 16-year-old daughter was gangraped by a group of uppercaste youth on Tuesday in Dabra village of Haryana's Hisar district.

The girl, a class XII student, was raped by her boyfriend and his friends on September 9 but she informed her parents of the incident on Tuesday evening.

Police said the girl told her parents that she was on her way to meet her uncle at Patel Nagar, around 20 km from her village. She was walking from the bus stop to meet her uncle, when her boyfriend Mahender, 20, came and took her to a secluded place on his motorcycle and raped her.

He also phoned seven of his friends who arrived and took turns to rape her after which Mahender dumped the girl near her uncle's house.

The girl returned home without telling anyone what had happened. When her father Krishan (43), a farm labourer, came to know of the incident he informed the village elders who questioned the youth involved in the rape.

Mahender and his friends threatened Krishan that his daughter's nude pictures would be made public if he approached the police. A depressed Krishan went back home and consumed poison on Tuesday evening. Neighbours took him to the hospital where he died

Police registered a case on Wednesday after the dalit panchayat met Hisar SP B Satheesh Balan, who directed the cops to book the accused. No arrests have been made till now.

"A case has been registered under Sections 376 and 306 of the IPC and an inquiry is on. The postmortem will be conducted on Thursday," said Balan. The girl's medical examination confirmed rape.

Meanwhile, local BSP leaders Bajrang Indal and Sanjay Chauhan said influential people of the village are pressurizing Raj Kumar, elder brother of the deceased, to withdraw the case.