Teen dies by suicide, names teachers, school principal
NEW DELHI, Nov. 20 -- A 16-year-old Class 10 student of a prominent school in Delhi died by suicide at a metro station in west Delhi on Tuesday afternoon.
In a note recovered by police, he blamed his teachers and the school principal for his death. Police have registered a case in connection with the incident.
He was still in his school uniform at the time of his death.
A senior police officer aware of the matter said their control room received a call around 3pm about a boy falling from a metro station building in west Delhi.
A police team reached the spot and took him to a private hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival.
A note was found in his possession in which he purportedly described being allegedly ill treated by his schoolteachers, police said. He wrote that his last wish was that no student should be treated the way he was and said the four teachers he named in the note "must be punished". He also apologised to his parents and older brother, they added.
The boy's father, 48, who runs a business in Karol Bagh, said his wife is a homemaker and his older son studies in a college in south Delhi. He said the teenager had been enrolled in the same school since Class 2.
"For the last one year, my son was being scolded and troubled by his teachers over petty issues. He told us about it, and we raised our concerns with his teachers but nothing happened. Even his friends were troubled by those teachers," he said.
He said the teachers allegedly kept pressuring the boy to score better marks, and the child repeatedly told them "he was trying".
He alleged that on Tuesday his son collapsed at school but his teacher claimed he was faking it. The incident is described in the note.
Police said a case under section 107 (abetment to suicide) and 3(5) of the BNS has been registered at Raja Garden police station. The school will be asked to share CCTV footage and the teachers named will be called to join the probe. The school's senior headmaster could not be reached for comment....
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