GURUGRAM: A Class X student jumped to death from the 15th floor of BPTP Fortune Park, a condominium in Faridabadon Thursday night, leaving a note in which he blamed the school for his death.
The teenager bared his agony in the heart-rending letter to his mother, a single parent, telling her how much he loved her, writing, “Mumma, you are the best mom on this planet. I am really sorry that I couldn’t be more brave. This school has killed me…”
An FIR was on Friday filed against the academic head of the school on charges of abetment to suicide (Section 306, IPC) after the boy’s mother, who is an art teacher at the same school, filed a complaint.
The 16-year-old boy, who was to write his board exams, was allegedly bullied and harassed in school over a period of time and couldn’t take it anymore. “Some students called him gay, stripped him in the school bathroom and misbehaved with him on school trips,” said his mother, adding they had written multiple complaints and emails to the school authorities, but no action was taken. She claimed the school was not ready to listen to their grievances, saying they have no proof. The harassment had allegedly begun a year ago when students in senior classes had made a limited return to school.
In a statement, the school denied the boy was harassed and said it was cooperating with the investigation.
“I can’t live in this hateful world. I tried my best to live but it seems like life wanted something else,” the 16-year-old wrote in the note, asking his mother to change her job and join another school. “Please get yourself a new job and please remember ‘never stop doing art’. You are an angel and I was really blessed to have you in this birth,” he wrote.
A relative said the teenager could not speak out because his mom was working in the same school and he feared for her job.
Police said the boy went to the top floor of the condominium from the ground floor flat where he and his mother lived and jumped around 9.30pm. His mother had gone out around 6pm. Neighbors hastened the boy to Sarvodaya Hospital in Sector 7 and informed his mother. The boy was declared brought dead by doctors.
The school said in a statement, “We are saddened with the incident; the school always supports students. In this case also the school encouraged the student. The student was having some personal health issues due to which he was under stress. He was getting treatment for the same. The student never faced any kind of harassment in the school. We are cooperating with the police and want a fair and impartial probe and bring out the truth.”
The teenager bared his agony in the heart-rending letter to his mother, a single parent, telling her how much he loved her, writing, “Mumma, you are the best mom on this planet. I am really sorry that I couldn’t be more brave. This school has killed me…”
An FIR was on Friday filed against the academic head of the school on charges of abetment to suicide (Section 306, IPC) after the boy’s mother, who is an art teacher at the same school, filed a complaint.
The 16-year-old boy, who was to write his board exams, was allegedly bullied and harassed in school over a period of time and couldn’t take it anymore. “Some students called him gay, stripped him in the school bathroom and misbehaved with him on school trips,” said his mother, adding they had written multiple complaints and emails to the school authorities, but no action was taken. She claimed the school was not ready to listen to their grievances, saying they have no proof. The harassment had allegedly begun a year ago when students in senior classes had made a limited return to school.
In a statement, the school denied the boy was harassed and said it was cooperating with the investigation.
“I can’t live in this hateful world. I tried my best to live but it seems like life wanted something else,” the 16-year-old wrote in the note, asking his mother to change her job and join another school. “Please get yourself a new job and please remember ‘never stop doing art’. You are an angel and I was really blessed to have you in this birth,” he wrote.
A relative said the teenager could not speak out because his mom was working in the same school and he feared for her job.
Police said the boy went to the top floor of the condominium from the ground floor flat where he and his mother lived and jumped around 9.30pm. His mother had gone out around 6pm. Neighbors hastened the boy to Sarvodaya Hospital in Sector 7 and informed his mother. The boy was declared brought dead by doctors.
The school said in a statement, “We are saddened with the incident; the school always supports students. In this case also the school encouraged the student. The student was having some personal health issues due to which he was under stress. He was getting treatment for the same. The student never faced any kind of harassment in the school. We are cooperating with the police and want a fair and impartial probe and bring out the truth.”
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