India, April 9 -- An 18-year-old girl died under mysterious circumstances after falling from a high-rise residential society in Ghaziabad, triggering protests by her family and locals, before police persuaded the family to perform her last rites on Wednesday.

The deceased, a Class 12 pass-out from a nearby colony, had accompanied her father to the Jaipuria Sunrise Greens society in the Indirapuram area on Tuesday, where he is engaged for washing cars and ironing clothes.

According to police, CCTV footage showed the girl walking alone inside the society, and within minutes she fell from the 16th floor of a tower, leading to her death on the spot.

Following the incident on Tuesday, the girl's family staged a protest outside the society a...