India, Jan. 23 -- NEW DELHI

Over two months after a 16-year-old student of St Columba School in central Delhi died, reportedly by suicide, a purported 31-second video of the boy being reprimanded and being physically hit three times by a teacher has surfaced.

HT sent the video to Delhi Police for authentication, but did not receive a response until the time of going to print.

On November 18, the Class 11 student jumped from the elevated Metro station after leaving behind a handwritten note in his school bag. In the note, he accused three teachers and the headmistress of repeatedly humiliating him and wrote that his last wish was that "no student should be treated the way I was". He said those named "must be punished", and apologised to...