A 17-year-old student of Science stream studying in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV) at Amerigog allegedly committed suicide last night after his class teacher Shayed Abdul Alim caught him doodling slangs on his desk.
The student, who was studying in class-XI in the school had put on a Whatsapp status hinting about committing suicide and hanged from his residence in the city.
“The parents came to know after a friend of their told them about the status and to check on him. On finding him hanging from the ceiling, they called the police,” a police official said.
He was immediately rushed to the Pratiksha Hospital at Borbari but the doctors declared him brought dead.
Teachers said that the student’s grades were dropping and were asked several times to bring his parents to school as teachers of other subjects too had complaints against him.
“On finding him making those doodles during the class last Monday, Alim gave him an ultimatum to bring parents for a teacher parents meeting or face consequences. There was no excessive threatening,” said a teacher defending Alim.
Following his death, however, many students from the school started protesting against the teachers claiming that they were pressurising him too much that compelled him to take this step.
A protest against the teachers was carried out by the students of Class XI and XII against the teachers today afternoon in the school premises.
The school authorities have inititated an internal investigation in the matter and have sent the concerned teacher to a week's leave.