Moments earlier than the deadly determination, the weeping and disturbed 16-year-old Delhi schoolboy, who died by suicide, had requested his co-passenger to withdraw her son from the college. He advised the girl that the academics at college “tortured” him.
The Class 10 scholar of a non-public faculty jumped from the platform of Rajendra Place Metro Station in central Delhi at 2.34 pm on Tuesday, November 18.
Deepshikha, the girl who final noticed the schoolboy earlier than he headed to the Rajendra Place Metro Station, advised ANI that she was in the identical rickshaw because the boy on November 18.
She mentioned that she was bringing her ward dwelling from faculty in a rickshaw, like all different days, “However on the afternoon of November 18, once I had simply sat within the rickshaw with my son, he (the sufferer) all of the sudden got here working and rapidly received in.”
“He stored telling the motive force to go quicker. He appeared very disturbed,” Deepshikha recalled.
She then requested the boy what had occurred, to which he replied, “You need to withdraw your son from the college.”
“My board exams are developing, and the academics torture me so much. I am unable to even clarify how a lot. My dad and mom are referred to as to highschool many times,” the 16-year-old advised the girl.
The schoolboy had left a suicide word accusing his faculty academics of harassment and calling for strict motion in opposition to them.
In the meantime, dad and mom and college students have continued to protest exterior the personal faculty.
Delhi govt varieties investigation committee
Delhi Schooling Minister Ashish Sood mentioned that the state authorities had shaped an investigation committee.
“We now have shaped an investigation committee, and the college has additionally taken motion. I see this not solely because the Schooling Minister, but additionally as a involved mother or father,” he mentioned.
Sood additionally mentioned that he would write to colleges to ask whether or not they’re monitoring college students’ psychological well being and total well-being in accordance with CBSE pointers. “The state authorities is able to present handholding and help. We’re deeply involved about our youngsters’s psychological well being and well-being.”
The personal faculty has since suspended 4 academics.
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