A 12-year-old girl inmate of a state-funded shelter home here was hospitalised after she allegedly swallowed glass shards in a bid to commit suicide due to the "torture" inflicted upon her.

Hailing from Assam's Kamrup district, the girl was admitted to Sadar hospital by the shelter home staff on Sunday evening after she told them about it, the superintendent of the welfare home Anuja Kumari said.