India, Nov. 22 -- Nearly 100 protesters - parents, students and family friends - gathered outside St Columba's School on Friday afternoon, carrying placards and demanding accountability after a 16-year-old student died by suicide earlier this week accusing four staffers of harassment.

Many at the protest site expressed anger, as parents and children stepped forward to recount what they described as a pattern of humiliation and intimidation by the same three teachers and the headmistress named in the police complaint.

Some recalled students being singled out for pending fees, others described teachers who threatened to slap children or mocked them in full classrooms.

The tragedy unfolded on Tuesday afternoon, when the Class 10 student j...