New Delhi, May 30 -- More than a year after a 16-year-old student of Army Public School in Delhi died by suicide, Delhi Police has filed a charge sheet against the school's former principal and class coordinator, alleging abetment to suicide. The charge sheet was submitted before judicial magistrate (first class) Ravi of Patiala House courts recently following a complaint by the student's father, an army havildar.

The father alleged that his son was denied the admit card for the Class 10 board exams just two days before they began, causing the boy immense mental stress. The principal and teacher, he claimed, misbehaved with the student's mother and demanded Rs.10,000 as fine for damaging school property - all of which allegedly drove the...